New data on retail sales today that gave a sense of all-important consumer spending as we head into the heart of the holiday shopping season. There was a whole bunch of data this morning that had been ...

The Census Bureau's Advance Retail Sales Report for September showed consumer spending was lower than expected, with headline sales rising 0.2% versus the expected 0.4% monthly growth. This is down ...

Amazon is signaling that it expects a powerful wave of consumer spending in the months ahead, and the company is reorganizing its retail engine to capture as much of that demand as possible. From ...