Americans rediscovered their taste for consumption: personal expenditures grew by an annualised 3.4 per cent after falling in four of the previous six quarters.

美国人重新发现了自己对消费的爱好：个人支出在此前六个季度中的四个季度下降后，此次呈现3.4%的年化增幅。

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This explains why personal consumption expenditures fell at record rates at the end of 2008.

这就解释了为什么个人消费支出在2008年底以创纪录速度下降。

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The core personal consumption expenditures price index, which excludes food and fuel, rose 1.3 percent in May from a year earlier.

不包括食品和汽油的核心个人消费支出物价指数在5月份比去年同期增长了1.3%。

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If it went into personal expenditures, like a boat for examples, it would not be deductible at all.

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The personal consumption expenditures index rose to 1.5%, short of the Street's 1.7% outlook.

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Meantime, the latest U.S. personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation rate was 0.9 per cent, annualized.

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