Consumer spending, the main engine of the economy, has powered two straight quarters of 3% growth and the final three months of the year are also shaping up to be fairly robust. Incomes rose 0.3% last ...
An inflation gauge that is closely watched by the Federal Reserve barely rose last month in a sign that price pressures cooled after two months of sharp gains. Friday’s report from the Commerce ...
Consumer spending rose fast enough in November to suggest a pretty good start to the holiday shopping season, but not enough to suggest an acceleration in U.S. economic growth.