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Holiday retail sales up more than 5%, reports show

Shopping is back in style, at least for the holiday season.

Retail sales for the holidays soared more than 5 percent, according to two reports released Monday, led by online and clothing purchases. The preliminary reports, among the first tallies of the holiday shopping season, beat the estimates of most retail economists. Get the full story »