Consumer confidence declined in December, with a growing number of consumers expressing concerns about politics and tariffs. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index decreased by...
The Conference Board Employment Trends Index (ETI) saw its largest two-month increase in two years in October and November. The Index — a composite index based...
Headed into Black Friday, consumers are more positive than they have been in months. That’s among the takeaways from the latest reading of The Conference...
This week, PYMNTS Intelligence noted the appeal of paying over time — especially now, headed into the holiday shopping season, which starts, well, now. Our...
One week ahead of the election, we’re living in what might charitably be called uncertain times. And yet, as measured by The Conference Board’s latest...
Monday (Oct. 7) marked a double dose of economic data that provided a continued diet of mixed signals. First up, the Federal Reserve’s latest data on...
Consumers pulled back a bit on their spending increases in August, notching the slowest growth since the beginning of the year. The latest data from...
For lower-income consumers, the most vulnerable subset of the paycheck-to-paycheck economy, the outlook is, in a word … gloomy. As measured in the latest reading...
Is the American consumer cautiously confident? Confidently cautious? Somewhere in the middle? The Conference Board released its Consumer Confidence Index Tuesday (Aug. 27), which showed...