Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell thinks something fishy is going on. “There have been plenty of times where people are saying very downbeat things about the economy and then going out and buying a new ...

Although government officials and true believers in “green energy” are denying it, the collapse of the electric grid in Spain ...

Consumer sentiment is souring, and recession fears are rising, but spending in the US is on the rise as consumers and ...

Japan is under growing pressure to reduce its deeply unpopular consumption tax in an effort to ease economic hardships on ordinary citizens and limit the impact of US tariffs – though analysts ...

“The fourth quarter stimulus hasn’t translated into the labor market yet,” said Duncan Wrigley, chief China economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics ... to revive consumption, a priority ...

China's consumer prices fell for the second straight month in March while factory-gate deflation worsened, as an escalating U ...

Capital Economics' Evans-Pritchard said the PPI ... reversing a 0.1% fall in June. Consumption has been in focus this year with the net export contribution to growth projected to turn negative ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for strengthened efforts to “fully unleash” the country’s consumption potential to spur growth amid a tariff war with the US. The Chinese leader said ...