Monday (Oct. 7) marked a double dose of economic data that provided a continued diet of mixed signals. First up, the Federal Reserve’s latest data on...
European consumers are saving at higher rates than before COVID as their American counterparts spend. As the Financial Times (FT) noted in a report Sunday...
Dining out is getting more expensive. Consumers continue to spend on their cards, but the pace may be pressured. Issuers want to be top-of-mind and...
Amazon plans to hire 250,000 workers for the upcoming holiday season, according to a Thursday (Oct. 3) press release. The figure is in keeping with...
As the holiday shopping season approaches, retailers are rolling out early sales strategies to capture consumer spending against a backdrop of economic uncertainty. With inflation...
For automakers, pre-pandemic sales highs might be in the rearview mirror. As The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Tuesday (Oct. 1), the steep price of new vehicles...
Consumers pulled back a bit on their spending increases in August, notching the slowest growth since the beginning of the year. The latest data from...
The latest revision to second-quarter GDP data is the third and final one. According to the newest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, real...
For decades, different payment cards existed to serve different purposes: Credit cards have offered the option to pay in full or revolve and pay the...