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Income tax refund levels are so strong this year that they might join lower gasoline prices to further improve consumer spending.
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Moviegoers want lower ticket prices. This obvious conclusion is part of a new study by consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Wall Street and Main Street are both rightfully disappointed by a weak retail sales report for December.
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Coca-Cola stock underperformed the broader indexes in 2014, and analysts generally see another lackluster year for 2015. That being said, analysts are not always right.
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Rising employment and lower gasoline prices both pumped some life into this year’s holiday shopping season, but there are going to winners and losers when the dust finally settles.
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IBM Digital Analytics tracks nationwide retail sales throughout the holidays, and its survey indicates online sales rose 8.3% on Christmas Day.
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Walmart is kicking off an offer that begins on Christmas Day that will allow consumers to exchange a gift card they received for a Walmart gift card.
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So far, $48.3 billion has been spent online in the United States, according to comScore, a 15% gain from a year ago.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce has released the numbers for personal income and spending for the month of November.
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It is either a sign that sales have been poor and retailers are going all-out to pick up more revenue any way they can, or it is a sign that sales have been good and retailers figure why not grab as...
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Retailers don’t call the last Saturday before Christmas “super” for no reason. More than a third of shoppers polled plan to be out shopping again.
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GDP could be damaged as much by the weather as by problems outside America. It happened in the first quarter of 2014 and could easily happen again.
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While many Americans believe that unemployment and gridlock in Washington have gone a long way to ruin this year, much of the population does not see it that way.
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For three consecutive quarters, the American Customer Satisfaction Index has been declining, and the drop in the third quarter could indicate weak spending growth for the important fourth.
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For all intents and purposes, Black Friday was transformed into Black November this year, with promotional pricing kicking in for some retailers right after Halloween.
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