consumer
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“Rapidly rising gas prices stressed the balance sheet of the lower-income consumer that our business overindexes to,” CEO Michael Skipworth said on Wingstop’s earnings call.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026
Visa’s earnings beat was driven by healthy consumer spending despite inflation worries fanned by the Iran war.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
The fashion-magazine moment is long gone as Miranda deals with such alarming new trends as budget cuts, the imperative to cram her vision into annoying little video clips, and consumer sensitivity to sweatshop manufacturing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Yet if oil prices remain well over $100 a barrel for too long, it can hurt demand, cut into consumer spending and act as a drag on the economy.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026
“I now realized there was an entire industry, called consumer finance, that basically existed to rip people off.”
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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