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AP - Consumer spending dropped in September by the largest amount in four years, while incomes suffered because of Hurricane Ike.

Wal-Mart announced plans to invest more than a billion dollars to open up to 90 new stores in Brazil. That country has become Latin America's fastest growing market, in part because of rising incomes and cheaper consumer credit.

Wal-Mart has been in Brazil for more than a decade, and already has 318 stores there.

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America's middle class is growing increasingly squeezed by sagging incomes and soaring expenses, experts told Congress on Wednesday.

Residents who buy real estate in these growing cities see their incomes go the furthest.

New Canaan, Conn., residents pull in more than $230,000 a year. Which other places have high incomes?