A report released by the Commerce Department on Wednesday showed an unexpected pullback in U.S. construction spending in the month of March.
The report said construction spending slumped by 0.9 percent to an annual rate of $1.282 trillion in March after climbing by 0.7 percent to a revised rate of $1.293 trillion in February. Economists had expected spending to inch up by 0.1 percent.
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