American households still felt gloomy about the economy in May, a month when changing tariff policies made it difficult to ...

Most US retailers are struggling from President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Dollar General could actually benefit.

After a spurt of optimism, Americans are feeling a little more glum about the economy — again. Consumer sentiment, a gauge of Americans’ economic perceptions, is at a six-month low, according ...

Americans’ feelings about the US economy remain in the doldrums after President Donald Trump’s tariffs: Consumer sentiment ...

Despite signs of souring economic sentiment, the economy keeps moving along. One columnist credits seniors for this ...

Consumer sentiment as a trendline can be a bit ... to the disconnect between the positive economic news and Americans' continued economic pessimism.*** Prior to the pandemic, our model shows ...

cautioned that politics might limit how much public sentiment can improve. Americans’ economic outlooks, he said, are increasingly driven by political partisanship rather than by the economy’s ...

Recent economic data has been encouraging ... in the labor market" can be enough to worsen Americans' moods and "turn the sentiment into reality," he said. The July inflation report signals ...

Yet the American people continued to give the ... from 1988 to 2016, the “sentiment” of economic-news coverage in mainstream newspapers tracked closely with measures such as inflation ...

The bleak sentiment readings reveal Americans are far more focused on rising prices than the extraordinary strength of the economic recovery. The US has recouped about 95% of the jobs it lost at ...

Even as many measures show that the economy is thriving, Americans have been feeling ... theories about the current gap between economic sentiment and the economic fundamentals.

In his view, American consumer sentiment has become disconnected from economic reality and is instead functioning as an expression of partisanship. Or, alternatively, consumer sentiment readings ...