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| | | ... billion in January from $20.7 billion as Americans buy more from China than it sells to it. And speaking of consumer spending, there's a "we're in trouble" moment there too. US jobless claims rose by 26,000 to 397,000 in the week ended March 5. This ... |
| | | | ... disposable income. Higher borrowing costs and higher prices for basic commodities would, by extension, slow consumer spending, limit economic activity, weaken business sales and lower company profits. By how much the BRICs and other emerging economies ... |
| | | | ... tensions between China and Taiwan have eased, which should lead to a drop in the defence budget and an increase in consumer spending driven, in part, by a rise in tourism. "Taiwan is very cheap so we see it as good value. Investment as a percentage of ... |
| | | | ... more than expected in January on the back of surging oil costs. However retail sales, a key indicator of the consumer spending that drives two-thirds of the economy, slowed to a weaker-than-expected 0.3 per cent rise in January. Shanghai rose for a fifth ... |
| | | | ... trillion in December and is now just 6.6 per cent below its 2008 peak of US$2.58 tril. This means those gains in consumer spending we saw in the previous months will continue. This means American company profits would continue to grow. This means the ... |
| | | | ... from inventories. Why? American consumers (and businesses) spent over the period... and boy did they spend. Consumer spending - yes, the one that makes up around 70 per cent of the economy - surged by 4.4 per cent annualised -- almost double the second ... |
| | | | ... why US consumer confidence had been rising! Increased consumer confidence should produce continued strength in consumer spending. Increased consumer spending would beget rising business confidence. More confident businesses would expand investment in ... |
| | | | ... summer slumber (I know, I keep using this phrase, sowee folks). US consumer confidence, motor vehicle sales, consumer spending, disposable income, the Beige Book and both manufacturing and non-manufacturing surveys by the Institute of Supply Management ... |
| | | | ... QE2) and investors locking in their profits. More important, it could also be a reaction to the positive US consumer spending report released overnight. More important because it confirms that the economy is waking up from its summer slumber. The US ... |
| | | | ... Research Institute, a Tokyo-based think tank, predicts last-minute purchasing of cigarettes this month will boost consumer spending in the quarter ending September 30 by 0.2 to 0.6 percentage points. With consumer spending accounting for about 60 per ... |
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