Tariffs are reportedly leading to confusion and frustration among eCommerce shoppers in the United States. At the end of August, the President Donald Trump administration...
Retail sales posted a stronger-than-expected gain in August, helped in part by back-to-school shopping, and especially by online purchases. However, data released Tuesday (Sept. 16)...
Every four months, the Federal Reserve releases its survey of household spending, offering a snapshot into where household budgets have been allocated and where paychecks...
U.S. banks’ borrowing from the Federal Reserve reportedly signals some liquidity pressure. On Monday (Sept. 15), banks borrowed $1.5 billion from the Federal Reserve’s Standing Repo Facility, Reuters reported. As...
U.S. tariffs have ushered in a wave of business for lending startups, Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. 15). Slope, for example, a company backed by JPMorgan,...
A growing number of consumers in the United States are living paycheck to paycheck, not because they earn too little, but because of how their...
Consumer sentiment in the U.S. has taken another sharp downturn, as September’s preliminary data from the University of Michigan signals mounting anxieties over tariffs, inflation...
Inflation’s pace quickened in August, and in the key category of food — and specifically grocery prices — the pinch on the household budget has...
More Americans filed for unemployment last week than in any week since 2021, the Department of Labor said in a Thursday (Sept. 11) press release....