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Receipts totaled $13.4M across all 26 reporting cities.","Among the Core cities, Siloam Springs led at +14.8% and Bella Vista trailed at +0.7%.","The fastest register growth was outside the Core: Sulphur Springs at +39.6%.","2 cities show moves large enough to reflect a new or changed local tax rather than spending (Springtown, Gravette); they are marked in the table and left out of the rankings above.","The 30-year mortgage rate averaged 3.44% in the period, 61 basis points lower than a year earlier.","Employed residents in the NWA metro averaged 248,239 in the period, up 3.8% from a year earlier.","Momentum at period end (12-month sales-tax growth vs a year earlier): slowing in Springdale."]}