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30 Aug 2010 10:04

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Biz: Consumer spending up, personal incomes less so, savings down

  • 0.4% the increase in consumer spending last month
  • 0.2% the increase in personal incomes last month
  • 0.3% the decrease in savings rate last month source
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28 May 2010 10:57

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Biz: Did consumer spending go up in April, guys?

  • NO but it didn’t go down, either;
    it stayed flat source
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30 Apr 2010 09:24

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Biz: Consumers driving gross domestic product’s improvement

  • 3.2% the increase in gross domestic product this quarter – good, but smaller than expected
  • 2.55% of that growth came from
    consumer spending – the largest boost since 2006 source
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23 Dec 2009 13:41

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Biz: Spending up, homes down: Our economy likes mixed signals

  • 0.5% increase in consumer spending in November alone
  • -11.3% decrease in new home sales; oh, how you tease source
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30 Oct 2009 09:12

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Biz, U.S.: Consumer spending doesn’t keep up with clunker sales

  • +1.4% the increase in consumer spending in August, largely thanks to cash for clunkers
  • -0.5% the comedown after the high in September, which isn’t promising for the holidays source
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28 Aug 2009 10:02

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Biz: Cash For Clunkers put consumer spending ahead last month

  • 0.2% consumer spending increase in July; clunkers helped source
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04 Aug 2009 10:28

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Biz, U.S.: Spending up, incomes down: The economy had a mixed June

  • +0.4% the increase in consumer spending in June, which was better than expected and topped May
  • -1.3% the drop in personal income in June, which was way bigger than expected – the largest since 2005 source
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30 Apr 2009 10:14

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Biz, U.S.: Consumer spending takes another small tumble in March

  • -0.2% the bigger-than-expected decline in spending source
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