Holiday purchases made by the top ten percent of households are expected to rise eight percent to $20.7 billion, while the top one percent of households intends to spend an average of $3,414, a dip of 3.3 percent from the year-ago period, according to a new study by American Express Publishing and Harrison Group.
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