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...
On a day when a stock market rout promised to become a full-fledged bloodbath, and as recession fears mounted, the latest spate of economic data...
Consumer confidence slipped slightly in June but didn’t stray far from where it’s been for two years. The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index dipped to...
Consumers are eyeing higher inflation on the horizon, as the latest data from the government shows, and a key demographic of the paycheck-to-paycheck economy is...
The latest readings of gross domestic product (GDP) have been revised down — at least a bit. And though the fourth-quarter GDP still logged some...
Consumer confidence surged in December, reaching a level last seen in July. There was greater optimism in consumers’ assessments of both current business and labor...