June 2, 2009
Even as consumers’ mood nearly reached its 2009 high last week, job-market perceptions did not improve, and consumer spending fell by 22% from the week leading up to Memorial Day -- and by 56% from the fiscal stimulus-enhanced spending of the ...
May 26, 2009
Gallup’s Monitor of Consumer Spending was higher in the week leading up to Memorial Day than it was the previous week, while consumers' mood, which hit a high for the year in early May, continued to level off, and ratings of job-market ...
May 22, 2009
The economic recession is causing 52% of Americans who had summer recreation plans to alter those plans, most commonly by spending less for lodging, food, and entertainment. The percentage of Americans who do not plan to travel at all this ...
May 5, 2009
Gallup Poll Daily tracking for the week ending May 3 finds consumers’ mood leveling off near its best point of the year, but consumer spending is down 53% from the same week a year ago and new hiring data suggest the job-market improvement was ...
April 28, 2009
Gallup Poll Daily tracking for the week ending April 26 finds no real improvement in consumer spending and a slight pullback in consumers’ mood, but finds some hope that the deterioration in the jobs market is stabilizing.
April 22, 2009
Asked to name the most important financial problem facing their families, Americans respond with a wide variety of issues, including a “lack of money” (15%), the cost of owning or renting a home (12%), healthcare (11%), jobs (10%), and too much ...
April 21, 2009
Gallup Poll Daily tracking for the week after Easter finds the consumer mood much improved and job-market perceptions improved as well, but no real increase in consumer spending.
April 20, 2009
Only 41% of non-retirees now say they will have enough money to live comfortably when they retire -- an 18-point drop since 2002 -- while a majority of 52% say they will not. Non-retirees are also much less likely now than in years past to say ...
April 14, 2009
Gallup Poll Daily tracking for the week spanning Monday, April 6 through Sunday, April 12 (with no interviewing on Easter Sunday) finds conflicting signs of the direction in which consumer attitudes moved in the past week.
April 7, 2009
Gallup Poll Daily tracking for the week of March 30 through April 5 finds Gallup’s Consumer Mood Index at -75, the most positive since mid-February 2008; daily consumer spending also has increased slightly, to an average of $71 last week from ...
