U.S. consumer confidence dips to lowest since August 2011

... had lost a little momentum going into the shutdown," Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Pierpont Securities LLC in Stamford, Connecticut, said before the report. "It could be a lackluster holiday retail season, and I think we're going to continue ...

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