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US consumers reduced their borrowing by $18.3 billion in May

by AP Economics Writer
| July 8, 2020 1:03 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumers reduced their borrowing for a third straight month in May as the millions of jobs lost because of the coronavirus pandemic made households less eager to take on new debt.

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