News on new home sales is brighter, showing a gain of nearly 8% in June.

有关新房销售的新闻更加乐观，显示6月份有近8%的增长。

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Yes, sales in clothing stores registered an increase of 2.4 percent last month over July, the largest gain since February.

是的，在服装店里上个月被记录的增加了2.4%的销售超过了七月份，是自二月份以来最大的增加。

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Instead of the modest gain economists had been expecting, U.S. retail sales dipped.1 percent in July.

美国七月份的零售销售不仅没有如经济学家们预期那样出现微幅上涨反而下降了0.1个百分点。

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Last month, small vehicles help General Motors post a sales gain, while sales of the Ford Focus were more than double in February from a year ago.

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It's supposed to deliver a sales gain of 25% this year and an earnings gain of 30%.

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Admittedly, its sales gain of 8% is slightly above the revenue increase Apple is forecasting in the current quarter.

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