 This is a Bloomberg Money Minute. Flying in the face of recent trends in American consumer spending, the latest look at US retail sales shows people remain willing to part with their money to get stuff. Sales excluding autos jumped 0.4% in June, following an upwardly revised gain of 0.1% in May. Sales including autos were unchanged, but economists suggest not to read too much into that figure because of the hack of an auto sales software company disrupting dealer transactions last month.