The ongoing federal shutdown has resulted in a pause on regular government data releases, meaning economic data has been in short supply of late. That has left market-watchers and monetary ...

Consumers report feeling increasingly glum about the economy. Still, data suggests there has been no significant slowdown in their spending habits. The conflicting trends have made for an increasingly ...

Americans’ views on the U.S. economy deteriorated to their lowest level in months, as rising prices and inflation stuck to the “forefront” of consumers’ concerns, according to a widely tracked survey ...

American consumers in December remained downbeat about the state of the economy, a new survey shows. The Conference Board, a nonprofit group representing businesses, said Tuesday that its consumer ...

Friday came the data from the University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers. November 2025 data. The overall index of consumer sentiment fell from 53.6 in October to 51.0. November 2024 it was 71.8, a ...

There's a puzzling split between how consumers overall feel about the economy and how they're acting, how much they are spending overall. Normally spending and feelings go together. Not right now.

The disconnect between hard and soft data is reflected as negative sentiments expressed in the soft surveys while hard macro ...

It's not every day that America's dollar stores become the hottest trade on Wall Street, but that's exactly what has happened recently. Both companies issued stronger-than-expected third-quarter ...

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