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It's a Motley Fool Money radio show. I'm Chris Hill joining me this week.

Senior analyst Jason Moser and Maria Gallagher. Good to see you both.

We've got the latest headlines from Wall Street. We will preview next week's events from Apple, Google and more.

And as always, we've got a couple of stocks on our radar. But we begin with the big macro.

Retail sales in the month of September rose 0.7%, which may not sound like a lot.

But that was nearly a full percentage point higher than what economists were expecting.

Maria, still a lot of ex-factors out there in the economy.

But this was a really nice surprise. Yeah, this was a great surprise.

And it's due to a couple of things. So we are actually in the highest inflation environment in the US in about 30 years.

So you see a lot of goods and short supply with supply chain constraints and full effect for goods people want to purchase such as electronics and cars.

However, retail sales are still increasing faster than inflation. So sales are at 14% compared to a 5.4% increase in the consumer price index.

So it's still really strong consumption numbers out of the US. And so I think it's going to be really interesting to see how early holidays and stopping starts this year.

Because they're telling us to start now due to these supply chain constraints.

So I wonder how many people are going to take them up on it or what December December is going to look like in the next in the next couple months.

Yeah, Jason, you think about sort of the factors Maria just highlighted combined with some of the back to school shopping season again. Great to see particularly since the expectation was for a slight drop.

Yeah, I mean, I think she keyed in certainly on the shopping early people are shopping early earlier than usual.

And I mean, we've seen Amazon already starting their Black Friday sales target doing something similar. I mean, this is just going to continue throughout the rest of the year.

And I think it's one thing I was thinking about too. It's also worth remembering. There are more ways to spend now. Right. I mean, you've got high deposit balances.

But I mean, look at the traction that by now pay later is is gaining over over this last year. I mean, it's giving consumers another way to pay, which I think that that is stoking some demand there.

So it's nice to see likely some pull forward here for for early holiday season shopping. But if supply chain issues can resolve themselves, maybe it's a bit more sustainable.

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