The investment bank Jefferies, which tracked 54 retailers during Black Friday, said it found that a majority of them offered flat discounts compared to last year.
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The hit to household budgets is ill-timed for the overall economy, Jefferies says, because the United States is widely believed to be on the brink of a recession.
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