business news now. and cyber monday. the holiday sales numbers are in and it seems like a lot of shoppers may already be a little bit swiped out in advance of the full swing holiday season. steve sedgwick joins from us london with more on that. good morning. yeah, very good day. really interesting looking at this. you and i have discussed how the national retail federation said this is the year when the consumer is back in the states. the figures they told us to recap was 4% increase they think we re going to get in holiday season sales into december. to $617 billion. what we had was a damp squibb. the figures weren t great for the first weekend of the holiday says. for instance, 11% drop to $50.9 billion spending in stores and online, down from $57 billion the same time last year. people per customer were spending $381 dollars over the four-day period, as opposed to $407 a year earlier.