U.S. consumer debt outstanding fell a record $8.7 billion in November, the Federal Reserve said on Friday in a report showing a sharp drop in credit and charge card activity.
The monthly decline — the largest since the data series was started in January 1943 — defied Wall Street expectations of a $6.0 billion increase in consumer credit.
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