U.S. retail sales rose 7.6 percent between November 1 and December 24 as steep discounts lured deal-hungry consumers, a Mastercard report showed on Monday.The increase is higher than the 7.1 percent growth forecast by Mastercard in September, when it anticipated consumers would pull purchases to October in the hunt for early deals.However, this year's holiday retail sales growth is less than the 8.5 percent increase last year as decades-high , rising interest rates and the threat of a recession turned consumers cautious.
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