Americans are facing higher costs. Trump was elected on promises to lower prices for inflation-weary consumers and high ...

“Core” C.P.I., which more closely reflects underlying inflation by removing volatile food and energy prices, also showed ...

Meanwhile, the consumer confidence index reached 81 after seeing its lowest last year at 75.9 in July and ending the year at 81.3. The real sector confidence index completed last year at 102.7 and ...

The Conference Board said earlier this week that the consumer confidence index dropped to 104.1 in January from an upwardly revised 109.5 in December, which also came in lower than the consensus ...

My trusty spreadsheet looked at the Conference Board’s consumer confidence indexes for January ... Now, you don’t need an index to know liberal California and conservative Trump aren ...

The “present situation” index was off 3% for the month and has only been down 1% since October. Nervousness isn’t limited to Golden Staters who didn’t get their candidate into the White House. Look at ...

In South Korea, the Composite Consumer Sentiment Index (CCSI ... Despite the improvement, the index remains below its historical average, underscoring persistent caution among consumers.