The Impact of Consumer Spending on Economic Activity . Consuming final goods is the result and motivation for economic ...

Retail sales rose 0.5 percent despite higher prices for gas, food and other goods. But there are signs consumers are under ...

TJX Companies (TJX), Ross Stores (ROST), and Walmart (WMT) — will be reporting their quarterly earnings results throughout ...

American consumer spending slowed in April as soaring gas prices hits households - March had marked the largest monthly surge in retail spending in over three years, largely driven by a rapid spike in ...

Two themes critical to the U.S. stock market -- the artificial intelligence boom and inflation-pressured consumer spending -- will come under ​the microscope next week with earnings reports from ...

CEO Marc Bitzer is making one of the bluntest recession comparisons of this earnings cycle. According to the Morning Brew ...

Measures of consumer sentiment have lost their usefulness as indicators of the health of the economy ...

During a White House small business summit, President Donald Trump said the economy is strong and his policies are satisfying Americans. "Consumer confidence is way up," Trump said at the May 4 event.

Consumers are still spending amid U.S.-Iran war and $4 gas prices, but there's a pullback at entertainment and dining venues hitting local economies hard.

Economists had believed that larger tax refunds from President Donald Trump’s tax cut legislation would kick start spending ...

Inflation continued to run hot in July, underlining the Federal Reserve's dilemma as it looks to lower prices for American consumers while propping up a job market that is starting to wobble. Prices ...