March 2020. It started with the first death from COVID-19 and political news from the Democratic primaries. It ended with the country in complete lockdown, New York City hospitals overrun with coronavirus patients and consumers hoarding necessities as the mysterious global pandemic took hold. Get...
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index has surged to new levels for the pandemic’s standards in March and now sits at 109.7, according to a press release. That’s up from 90.4 in February. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
A January study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found consumers expect to be spending more this year than they have in several years past, according to a press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
The gifts have been opened, the holiday roasts carved and the cookies consumed. There is just one step left before we can allofficially call the holiday season complete for another year: It’s the part where we all resolve to become better people in 2021. Get...
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Consumer confidence fell in December, declining to 88.6 of a possible 100 points from 92.9 in November, according to a Consumer Confidence Survey from The Conference Board. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
A new survey has revealed the steep plummet the consumer credit market took as the pandemic began, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
U.S. consumers, the driving force behind two-thirds of gross domestic product (GDP), say they are beginning to feel better about the current and foreseeable economic picture, the University of Michigan reported in its closely watched Index of Consumer Sentiment. Get the Full Story Complete the...
There’s no shortage of pain points to catalog from the past six months: A global pandemic, worldwide economic disruption, record-breaking unemployment, an invasion by murder hornets — the hits never seem to stop. But the running theme through all of the frustration that 2020 has...
