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Personal Income, Consumer Spending Signal Weak Q1 Growth

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Winograd added, “We shouldn’t expect any action from the Fed into at least the second half of the year.”. But government payments to farmers, as well as a VMware Inc special dividend, had bolstered incomes in December. And, as government spending and the $1.5 percent in January. Consumer spending, however, declined 0.5