Americans are heading into the holiday shopping season spending more on essentials like food and gas, as well as big-ticket items like cars and discretionary...
Consumer spending in August rose 0.4%, aligning with bigger paychecks and rebounding from a decline last month even as inflation stays high. Excluding food and...
Consumer spending across the U.S. was up 1.1% in March, according to a Friday (April 29) Commerce Department press release. The spending boost was led...
You can’t keep the American shopper down. As The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday (Oct. 15), U.S. consumer spending rose in September, a signal...
Labor Day travel and continued consumer resilience contributed to a 0.7% increase in consumer spending last month, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday (Oct....
U.S. consumer spending unexpectedly rose 0.7% in August, reversing a slump in July and defying concerns that a surge in COVID cases and business restrictions...
The U.S. Commerce Department is forming an artificial intelligence (AI) committee that will work alongside the National AI Initiative Office (NAIIO) in the White House...
Total retail and food sales stalled in April in the face of rising prices and the absence of $1,400 stimulus checks that fueled a record...
Retail sales, the nation’s broadest measure of consumer activity, fell 3 percent last month, contracting far more than economists were expecting while marking a stark...