After a solid holiday season, US retail sales took a surprising step back to start 2025, snapping a streak of growth and ...

What's the disconnect between consumers saying they are worried about the economy but holiday spending was at record highs?

Consumer spending in January was down from the robust pace in December but still posted a 5.44% gain when compared with ...

China’s consumer inflation accelerated for the first time since August, caused by a burst of household spending around the ...

Walmart’s quarterly report in the coming week will give investors fresh insight into the health of U.S. consumers, who are ...

U.S. inflation increased by the most in eight months in December amid robust consumer spending on goods and services, ...

Economists expect the consumer price index rose 2.9% last month, matching the year-over-year increase in December. The annual rate of inflation has been mostly inching higher since October. That has ...

The typical consumer spent 6.6% of their income on food in 2024, the same level as in 2019, according to Kearney’s latest ...

Meanwhile, producer deflation is likely to persist unless policymakers can rekindle sluggish domestic demand, analysts say.

The growth in core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices and is deemed a better gauge of the supply-demand ...