Over the years, Christmas-tree sales have been a decent indicator of how overall consumer spending is doing. This year, the needles are pointing to a more cautious consumer.🔗: https://t.co/lxoTgIo1wm https://t.co/h0NCmoKsSv ...

The consumer calvary got here just in time to give us what looks to be the beginning of a SANTA CLAUS RALLY. THAT'S the only way to describe what worked today. Everything involving consumer spending couldn't come as a better time because tech's been faltered.We needed something big to replace it. Even as you couldn't tell from the averages, Dow advancing 66 points to be jumping 79% but the techlaid NASDAQ surging 1.38%. Let me set the scene.For most of the year, we've had oh, woe is the narrative consumer, ...

Joining us now, Sylvia Jablonsky, Defiance ETF's co-founder and CEO. And we were talking about the some of the positive action we've seen in the stock market in the last what week and a half or so, which maybe calmed some of the fears that we did have earlier uh about whether we wouldn't have a Santa Claus rally. In fact, a lot of people said what we normally see in September and October, we were seeing in November. Some of the uh you know, we see a lot of lows set in October.I want to start with you with w ...

How's the US economy doing. Actually, how's the US consumer holding up. >> The US consumer is doing fine.It was good and around the the Black Friday in the US and the cy Cyber Monday and all the things they talk about the spending was solid and good and it's consistent with a growing economy. Our team has economy growing next year at 2.4%. So Candace and her team who are the best in the business, you know, that that's their thing.But everything we see in the consumer side sets that up. >> Is there a worry a ...

And some after hours action. Hila Packard Enterprise missing revenue expectations in Ulta topping earnings and revenue estimates. Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley recently raised its 12-month S&P target to 7,800.So, as we mentioned before, Mike is feeling bullish. What is going to carry us to 7,800. >> It's really a continuation of this year's story.I mean, you know, we we had a view coming into the year that they were going to probably do the growth negative policy stuff first and it turned into sort of kitchen s ...

Economic Activity - US economic activity remained largely unchanged in recent weeks [1] Consumer Spending - Overall consumer spending experienced a further decline [1] - Spending among higher-end shoppers remained an exception to the overall decline [1]

Economic Outlook - Consumer spending shows resilience, but hides significant disparities between income groups [2][3] - Real consumer spending is growing at approximately 2% [3] - Spending by the bottom 80% of the income distribution has barely kept pace with inflation since the pandemic [4] - All spending growth is concentrated in the top 20% of income earners [5] Affordability Crisis - An affordability crisis is driven by higher prices for essential goods and services [6] - Acceleration in inflation and weakening job market since the beginning of the year exacerbate the crisis [7] Policy Impact - Tariffs and immigration policies contribute to the current economic challenges [7] - Rolling back tariffs on everyday items is a potential policy response [8] - Without policy changes at the beginning of the year, inflation was projected to return to the Federal Reserve's target by year-end [10] Potential Solutions - Cutting back on tariffs and rethinking immigration policy are the quickest ways to restore affordability [11] - Addressing issues in housing, healthcare, education, childcare, and eldercare are important but take longer to implement [12]

Americans have continued spending, despite saying they feel awful about the economy. Walmart's latest quarterly numbers will likely offer more insights about how consumers are doing. https://t.co/rBGqmR6GlI ...

The Home Depot report yesterday that I think had a lot of people concerned. And the question was, okay, the lowering of guidance from Home Depot sent shares lower yesterday on concerns about consumer spending. Are we going to hear the same thing from Lowe's.We didn't. You know, that was kind of the expectation going in this morning that we would kind of you usually get copy paste results from Lowe's. But it's interesting, I think with Lowe's, we kind of tend to forget it's a little bit of this like turnarou ...

[Music] [Music] Good Thursday morning from Yahoo Finance's New York City headquarter studios. I'm Yahoo Finance executive editor Brian Sazy. I've been lurking on our Yahoo Finance live blogs which you uh you can find at the top of our homepage all morning just digesting a ton a ton of headlines.Snapshares are ripping higher as an at $400 million deal with Perplexity. Pexity's search capabilities will appear in the chat interface starting in early 2026. Nothing disappearing there.Big day for Tesla and CO Elo ...