Here’s why US economic growth could wither this year

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Yahoo News - CNBC - 8/7/2017 - Rebecca Ungarino - Several signs are pointing to soft earnings and economic growth, according to Gina Sanchez, CEO of Chantico Global. "I'm specifically looking at the divergence between the soft data, like consumer confidence, and the hard data, like retail sales. Consumer confidence was pacing well above retail sales for many months now, and we are starting to see that start to slow and come back to the reality that retail sales numbers never picked up pace," Sanchez said Friday on CNBC's " Trading Nation ." Read more @ https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-us-econo ... 00479.html