Consumer prices accelerated in August, adding to household expenses at a time when many financially constrained consumers have already reduced the discretionary spending they can...
For roughly 60 million workers in the United States, getting sick is not only a health event. It can be an income event, and, soon...
Households added more credit in July across cards and long-term loans, extending the financial obligations that will compete with other spending in the months ahead....
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...
Savings are becoming a dividing line in household finances, separating consumers who can absorb an expensive surprise from those pushed into financial difficulty by it....
The summer’s biggest retail sales events did more than create a larger shopping crowd. Their overlap also changed who showed up, how much they spent...
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...
IKEA is reducing prices on 1,500-plus products in Europe amid ongoing cost-of-living pressures. The Swedish furniture retailer announced Tuesday (Sept. 1) that it was investing...
Retailers and consumer goods companies have begun lowering prices thanks to tariff refunds. Walmart, Tractor Supply and e.l.f. Beauty are among the companies going this...