by Mike Duff | Jul 8, 2025 | Featured News, Retail Articles
National Retail Federation Chief Economist Jack Kleinheinz said it remains difficult at the halfway point of 2025 to predict the impact of new tariffs and other government policies on a U.S. economy that started the year with high hopes. The NRF July Economic Review...
by Peter Giannetti | Dec 16, 2024 | Retail Articles
Personal finance services company WalletHub, noting the strong expectation for the Federal Reserve to reduce its target interest rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday, December 18, released results of a consumer survey on the matter indicating continuing personal...
by Mike Duff | Nov 8, 2024 | Retail Articles
As the United States Federal Reserve dropped the prime interest rate by another quarter point, the National Retail Federation maintained economic progress, despite some mixed indicators, should continue to support holiday retail sales growth. On October 15, NRF...
by Mike Duff | Sep 17, 2024 | Featured News, Retail Articles
Despite some expectations among market observers of a greater slowdown as anti-inflation measures taken by the United States Federal Reserve have taken hold, data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau demonstrates retail sales continued to grow in August, fueled by...
by Mike Duff | Sep 6, 2024 | Featured News, Retail Articles
The economy is slowing but growing, inflation has moderated and the Federal Reserve has suggested it’s about to lower interest rates, which suggests that the United States has dodged a recession, according to National Retail Federation chief economist Jack Kleinhenz...
