Consumer confidence fell in September as consumer concerns about the cost of fuel and other goods and services rose to new heights, The Conference Board...
Meet Tom and Elaine. (Our names, not theirs.) Both report household income between $65,000 and $70,000. Both are married, live in a city and say...
The American consumer is still spending, but the Federal Reserve’s latest survey makes it increasingly difficult to speak of all consumers as though they were...
The biggest threat to the summer budget may be the expenses consumers can’t cancel. New PYMNTS Intelligence data suggests that groceries, utility bills and transportation...
Households squeezed by higher prices are getting better results when they treat budgeting like a toolbox, not a single pair of scissors. A new PYMNTS...
European consumers’ inflation expectations inched down in July, the European Central Bank said in a Friday (Aug. 21) press release. Consumers’ median expectations for inflation over the next 12 months...
Seventeen percent of card issuers have reached the high customer lifetime value (CLTV) tier. What sets them apart isn’t the number of capabilities they’ve deployed,...
Consumers are watching their spending more closely, but they are not giving up the financial leeway that credit can provide. That is the larger trend...