Consumer Confidence

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A woman pushing a shopping cart in a Walmart
Retail

Walmart’s shopper surge last quarter should boost retailer’s profits for the rest of the year

By Paolo Confino and Sasha Rogelberg
August 15, 2024
Jeffrey Schmid
Finance

Fed official says no rate cuts yet, inflation still above target

By Steve Matthews and Bloomberg
August 9, 2024
Germans celebrating Oktoberfest.
Finance

The eurozone’s weakest big economy also has the happiest consumers

By Marilen Martin and Bloomberg
August 4, 2024
A man with gray hair sits in a McDonalds and looks at the camera.
Retail

Columbia professor says McDonald’s can blame its sales woes on an election-stoked vibecession

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July 31, 2024
Worried male investor sitting on stack of gold bars illustration
Personal Finance

Americans earning over $150,000 are more concerned about making ends meet than those between $40,000–$70,000

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June 27, 2024
newborn baby up close
Lifestyle

More Americans are suddenly planning to have babies and buy new homes, even as consumer sentiment sinks

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June 15, 2024
Houses falling like dominoes
Finance

Home prices could start dropping this summer, marking the ‘first domino to fall’ on the way to a weaker economy, strategist says

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June 2, 2024
Woman sitting in front of laptop holding a credit card looking worried.
Success

Americans’ economic pessimism contains a strange paradox: They’re feeling great about their own personal finances

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May 30, 2024
A young woman and a middle aged man laughing
Success

Economic optimism belongs to the wealthy and, for some mysterious reason, the young, new data shows

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May 29, 2024
Ryanair Group CEO Michael O'Leary gestures while making a point during a press conference on the future of the company's operations
Retail

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary becomes dissenting voice on Europe’s economic recovery, warning of ‘recessionary feel’ amid low ticket demand

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May 21, 2024
Young woman with shopping bags
Finance

Consumers are so demoralized by inflation and high rates that they’ve given up on saving for the American Dream and are spending money instead, economist says

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May 19, 2024
shopper passes a display of televisions
Finance

Inflation and unemployment fears send consumer sentiment tumbling to a 6-month low, adding to red flags from Starbucks, McDonald’s

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
May 10, 2024
Woman in supermarket aisle
Finance

You think you earned your raise and you think inflation is unfair: New economic paper sums up Biden’s dilemma

By Irina Ivanova and Sunny Nagpaul
April 9, 2024
Job-market optimism pushed consumer confidence up for the first time in four months in November
Finance

Job-market optimism pushed consumer confidence up for the first time in four months in November

By Augusta Saraiva and Bloomberg
November 28, 2023
William "Bill" Simon, president and chief executive officer of Wal-Mart U.S., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the SelectUSA 2013 Investment Summit in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013.
Retail

American consumers are taking their foot off the spending pedal as bargain prices become rarer, former Walmart U.S. CEO says

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October 10, 2023

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