consumer spending

Shoppers planned to spend an average of about $86 each this Halloween season, between costumes, candy for the youngsters and scary stuff for the yard, according to data from the National Retail Federation. Halloween revelers in the United States will spend about 50 cents less per person on average...

Teens head to Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL)’s YouTube and Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) for entertainment and Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) to buy stuff, a new survey shows. Watching Online Teens spend 37% of the time they’re consuming video entertainment watching YouTube, slightly ahead...

Consumer confidence could surge in July with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 showing out in June. The S&P 500 closed out the start of the year with its best first-half numbers since 1997. Stocks closed higher Friday, June 28 in anticipation of trade talks between U.S...

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It seems a bit unusual For Tuesday, January 3, to be one of the busiest online shopping day of the year - but it is. According to CNBC's Courtney Reagan, many Americans are back at work on Tuesday and have amassed a collection of gift cards, unwanted gifts and tons of marketing emails and...

Consumer spending for the month of September rose 0.5 percent from a month earlier, which exceeded the 0.4 percent growth economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal were expecting. The Wall Street Journal further noted that personal-consumption expenditures rose at a 2.1 percent pace in the...

Consumers are after all a segment that cannot be cowed down by see-sawing fortunes of the U.S. presidential race. Armed with the confidence bestowed by a healthy job market, consumers look set to make this holiday season their own. A report released earlier in the day by the Bureau of Economic...

Consumer spending isn't necessarily showing any signs of slowing down - an argument that seems unconvincing following poor earnings reports from many retailers, department stores and apparel makers. According to Jim Cramer, poor earnings reports from various retailers reflect in a shift in...

According to Robert Drbul of Nomura, the consumer is in a "better position to spend." Drbul added low gas and oil prices will also leave consumers with ‘extra cash to spend' and the low-income consumer should "continue to benefit." The analyst named Amazon....

The Vice Index has been revised and is now chained to January 2009. The data itself goes back to 1993. Vice spending is where the desire to spend meets the ability to spend. As the heart of consumer spending, vices adhere nicely to more conventional economic benchmarks like retail sales. Retail...

U.S. markets were mixed to start the week as the price of crude oil traded at levels it hasn't seen in more than two years following Saudi Arabia's announcement it will cut the selling price of oil to the U.S. and raise prices for other locations. Economic data released today showed...

U.S. stocks rallied to start the week on a positive note. Investors are looking for bullish signs that can erase last weeks declines, as the S&P 500 had its largest weekly drop since 2012 and the Volatility Index surged more than 30 percent. Portugal's Central Bank plans to spend 4.9...