President Donald Trump's second term economic plan can be summed up in one word: tariffs. As his barrage of import taxes went ...

The Consumer Confidence Index shed 5.4 points month over month, to 93 in June, reflecting Americans’ growing pessimism about ...

Real-time index price for S&P 500 Utilities [Sector] (SRUT), along with buy or sell indicators, analysis, charts, historical performance, news and more ...

The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index fell 5.4 points to 93.0 this month, marking its sixth monthly decline in the ...

Consumer confidence improved marginally in June, as positivity around the general economy increased, but inflation and the threat of rising petrol prices continues to weigh on people’s minds. The ...

They charted consumer confidence against household spending, and found historically it has been. In the chart below, it’s clear the two were extremely close for most of history. A larger gap forms ...

Past instances of low consumer confidence have often been accompanied by a rise in gold prices, though there have been exceptions. In 1990, for example, the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, which ...

Consumer confidence in the future of the UK economy has plummeted to the lowest levels seen since the height of the cost of living crisis due to concerns about global events such as the impact of the ...

The twice-yearly Brookings-FT Tiger index compares indicators of real activity, financial markets and confidence with their historical averages, both for advanced economies and emerging ones.

Consumer sentiment is now lower than during the 2008 financial crisis, reflecting worries that President Donald Trump’s tariff policies will create new inflationary pressures. Details from the ...

He’s not the only one: In March, motor vehicle and parts dealers saw a 5.3 percent increase in sales from the previous month and an 8.8 percent rise from the same month last year. Trump had, at ...

And if so, when? Consumer confidence is a leading indicator, in theory. When consumers see hard times ahead, eventually they will start spending less. But that day might never come.