Customers walk through a shopping mall on March 15, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Retail sales slipped 0.4 percent in February after being up more than 3 percent in January.
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Growth in the U.S. slowed considerably during the first three months of the year as interest rate increases and inflation took hold of an economy largely expected to decelerate even further ahead.
Gross domestic product, a measure of all goods and…