A flat June reading for retail sales can be a tossup in terms of getting a sense of how the consumer is faring. The data...
Get enough data points in place, and you have a trend. As bank earnings have started to roll in — thus far, from JPMorgan, Wells...
Economic growth in China reportedly fell to its slowest pace in five quarters. The surprise slowdown came as a decline in consumer spending hamstrung an...
Goldman Sachs’ GreenSky sale is in the rearview mirror and its pivot from Main Street banking is ongoing. Its latest earnings results, released Monday (July...
U.S. corporate bankruptcies are at a level not seen since the early days of COVID. So far this year, there have been 346 business bankruptcy...
Citigroup’s earnings results showed a bit of bifurcation in consumer spending, as higher credit scoring individuals continue to use their cards and lower FICO consumers...
Target is facing increased competition from online retailers with faster delivery and a wider selection of products. Customers are also shopping less frequently in physical...
JPMorgan’s latest results, released Friday (July 12), showed that consumers continued to use their cards in full force, for both debit and credit payments. And...
The Consumer Price Index released Thursday (July 11) showed that, at least overall, the pace of inflation cooled in June. But the category-by-category data from...