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Receipts totaled $40.7M across all 26 reporting cities.","Among the Core cities, Bentonville led at +11.1% and Fayetteville trailed at +3.8%.","The fastest register growth was outside the Core: Elkins at +19.7%.","2 cities show moves large enough to reflect a new or changed local tax rather than spending (Springtown, Lowell); they are marked in the table and left out of the rankings above.","The 30-year mortgage rate averaged 3.45% in the period, 51 basis points lower than a year earlier.","Employed residents in the NWA metro averaged 246,585 in the period, up 3.4% from a year earlier.","Momentum at period end (12-month sales-tax growth vs a year earlier): slowing in Springdale."]}