Wed Oct 14 12:54:00 -0400 2009

KansasCity.com

- The Dow Jones industrial average is back above 10,000 for the first time in a year as investors bet the economy is indeed recovering from the financial crisis and recession.

Retailers are seeing a “stair-step” recovery in consumer spending as the economy emerges from the recession, retail analyst Dana Telsey, founder of the Telsey Advisory Group in New York, said in an interview on Bloomberg Radio.

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