A new Bank of America Institute report dove into the shifts in alcohol spending, which is at its third-lowest level in the past 40 years as a share of total expenditures. About 0.8% of a typical ...

In a Shanghai shopping centre, customers browsed racks of used winter coats, $2 trousers and household appliances -- pre-used items that would have been out of place in a major Chinese mall a ...

The Barcode Group reports that rising costs and stagnant wages shift consumer focus to exclusive retail and discount shopping, as disposable income struggles to keep pace.

The Conference Board Senior US Economist Yelena Shulyatyeva joins Yahoo Finance host Julie Hyman to break down February’s ...

A favorite adage of economists, market watchers, and financial journalists alike is that the American consumer is the engine of the US economy. If spending is not slowing, the thinking goes, the ...

China's nine-day Lunar New Year holiday showed consumers were eager to travel, while remaining price-conscious.

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] WASHINGTON — Powered by strong consumer spending, the U.S. economy grew at the fastest pace in two years from July through September, ...

The president blamed the soft GDP report on Democrats and Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

Electricity inflation varies a lot from state to state, and it’s hard to pin down exactly how much of it is due to AI, but Goldman’s economists suggest that it’s a meaningful factor — with the share ...