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Retail Sales Boost Q4 Growth

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs “Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for December 2024, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $729.2 billion, an increase of 0.4 percent (±0.5 percent)* from the … Continue reading →

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Retail Sales, Manufacturing Recovering, But What’s Next?

Posted on November 18, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs FREDretailsales Retail sales jumped 5.1 percent year-over-year in October, which means this recovery is much stronger than forecast. But the question for economists will be, can it continue with the ongoing winter COVID-19 surge? It’s incredible that consumers … Continue reading →

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Happy Consumers Are the Key…

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly FREDretailsales Are we heading for a fall in the Fall when the ordinary flu season begins? The chickens may be coming home to roost, as the saying goes, because the US economy opened to soon. Retail sales … Continue reading →

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Why Are Retail Sales Struggling?

Posted on February 15, 2020 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Calculated Risk Retail sales have slowed markedly since the fall of 2019, with monthly overall sales up just 0.3 percent, and rising 3.9 percent annually without volatile gasoline prices. This means the U.S. is basically stuck in a … Continue reading →

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Q4 Economic Growth…Watch Out Below!

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly We might have a problem with economic growth in the fourth quarter, thanks in part to Republicans’ 2017 tax cuts that were to stimulate longer term growth and jobs, believe it or not. The New York and … Continue reading →

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Lower Retail Sales Hint at Weaker Economic Growth Ahead

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Fred U.S. retail sales that mirror consumer spending, which powers some two-thirds of U.S. GDP growth, fell for the first time in seven months in September, raising fears that a slowdown in the American manufacturing sector could … Continue reading →

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Great Retail Sales!

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Econoday.com Retail sales rose in June for the fourth month in a row, quieting concerns that the trade wars and weaker manufacturing output would also drag down consumer spending. The most surprising strength in the report was a … Continue reading →

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Ignore the Bad News-Goldilocks Is Back!

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Why has the Fed stopped raising their interest rates? Because this is the lowest inflation rate for ‘core’ consumption expenditures in three decades, as this FRED graph from 1980 onward portrays. fred stlouisfed.org. “We are almost 10 years … Continue reading →

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Why No Inflation??

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Popular Economics Weekly

Financial FAQs Econoday There is almost no inflation, and the markets love it, as both stocks and bonds are rallying on news. The Consumer Price Index rose just 1.5 percent in February, and its core without more volatile food and … Continue reading →

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Retail Sales Surge While Consumers Pay Down Debt

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Econoday.com U.S. retail sales rebounded sharply in October as purchases of motor vehicles and building materials surged, likely driven by rebuilding efforts in areas devastated by Hurricane Florence. CBS News reports an economic consulting firm says Hurricane … Continue reading →

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