Consumers and businesses are increasingly worried. What everyone from Wall Street investors to economists to the Federal Reserve will be watching closely is whether those concerns lead to a downturn.

High inflation and high interest rates have contributed to vulnerabilities among consumers, making them all the more ...

Wells Fargo’s economics team recently dived into ... many times in recent years,” Wells economists Tim Quinlan and Shannon Grein told clients in a separate report. “There is still time ...

said Shannon Grein, Wells Fargo economist. “While real spending came in weak, and we had some downward revisions to the prior month’s data, I just think it’s a little too soon to write off ...

Consumers have been saying how fed up they are with inflation. But they keep on buying stuff, says Stephen Brown at Capital ...

The Institute of Supply Management manufacturing PMI returned to contraction territory in March as factory managers saw ...