The Federal Reserve’s staying pat, for now. The announcement on Wednesday (Sept. 20) that the central bank is leaving interest rates unchanged — at a...
Consumers are in the aisles, spending on groceries, the clothes on their backs — and at brick-and-mortar locales, pivoting a bit from online channels. At...
The U.S. Commerce Department said Tuesday (Sept. 5) that orders for U.S. manufactured goods were down in July, by 2.1%, a reversal from four straight...
Retail sales keep on chugging along. To that end, the data released Tuesday (Aug. 15) by the Commerce Department showed that consumer spending, overall, remained...
Consumer spending continued to drop in May as U.S. households curtailed spending and boosted their savings. Data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released...
America’s business inventories enjoyed a slight rebound in April, according to new Commerce Department data. A report released by the department Thursday (June 15) showed that total...
The latest retail sales data brings to mind that old 1960s mantra: Keep on truckin’. U.S. individuals and households boosted their spending in May, seemingly...
U.S. retail sales climbed slightly in April following two months of decline. Figures from the Commerce Department released Tuesday (May 16) showed spending increasing a...
January’s consumer spending numbers have turned out to be a temporary reprieve, as customers continue to cut back. The most recent Commerce Department spending numbers...