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A rise in mortgage rates, slowing income growth and persistently high inflation have triggered a sharp fall in consumer spending power during April, which could further knock the UK's recovery off course. Consumers are more than £100 a year ...
May 21, 2012 at 10:46 | Source: The Guardian
NEW YORK (AP) -- Stock futures rose Tuesday as government data showed that consumers spent slightly more in April as prices remained flat. Dow Jones industrial average futures rose 60 points to 12,715. Standard & Poor's 500 futures added 7.6 ...
May 26, 2012 at 15:41 | Source: Yahoo Finance
Gas has been pricey this spring and the pain at the pump has caused some consumers to change their spending patterns, a new survey by Bankrate.com has found. From the end of December through mid-April, the price of regular gas rose to a national ...
May 21, 2012 at 20:33 | Source: FOXBusiness
The slow job recovery has curtailed consumer spending, but there are signs of improvement in the Richmond region. Sales tax revenue, a good gauge of consumer shopping habits, is 9.3 percent below its previous peak in the region. A year ago, Gary ...
May 23, 2012 at 03:49 | Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
A record number of households said they’d heard better news on the jobs outlook, which combined with cheaper gasoline and an improving housing market may help sustain consumer spending and shield the economy from Europe’s debt crisis.
May 25, 2012 at 16:46 | Source: Bloomberg
You can’t get blood from a stone — unless the stone has a credit card. Consumers managed a soft 0.1% gain in April retail sales, which suggests consumer spending is contributing only modestly to second-quarter economic growth. (In comparison ...
May 15, 2012 at 18:17 | Source: Wall Street Journal
The latest sign of increased consumer spending comes by way of an IBM report concerning this year's Memorial Day travel. IBM gathered consumer opinions and writings about Memorial Day from an analytic and language processing technology. Opinions were ...
May 25, 2012 at 14:59 | Source: consumer affairs.com
Chase today launched the Chase Freedom Lifestyle Index, a barometer of consumer trends related to simple pleasures and special occasions based upon aggregated Chase Freedom cardmember spending data. The initial findings point to an increase in ...
May 26, 2012 at 10:04 | Source: Yahoo Finance
Many consumers are cutting back on spending in various areas. For some it's entertainment, for others it's cutting back on utility usage or clothes. But wherever cutbacks are needed, it doesn't seem like they apply to pharmaceutical products, groceries or ...
May 18, 2012 at 19:47 | Source: consumer affairs.com
While that could help consumer spending going forward, the drop in prices did little to boost spending on discretionary goods in April. The retail sales report represents the government's first look at consumer spending for the April-June quarter.
May 15, 2012 at 15:11 | Source: NPR News