Once you strip out commodity purchases, consumer consumption appears as if it has flatlined in the last two months, something evident from the tumble in the Consumer Price Index.
Consumer consumption is critical to businesses, which continue to sit on hoards of cash.
Todd Fischer: The evolution of our engagement marketing strategy is a direct reflection of changing consumer consumption habits.
Happily, any brand, ad, media platform, or consumer consumption model can be measured for engagement in this manner.
However, when variability in consumer consumption spikes, significant changes are in store.
The consumption goes into consumer spending, and the savings goes into capital spending (which is actually what makes us richer and more prosperous).
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Over the last seven recessions before the latest one, reduced consumer consumption accounted for only 7.3% of the contribution to the negative GDP result.
The challenge to traditional consumer consumption patterns (which is driven by creating demand for items for consumers to purchase and own) lies in questioning the need to always own something.
Although primarily produced for industrial use, the water is purified to drinking-quality using dual membrane microfiltration and reverse osmosis technologies, and marketed as bottled water for human consumption under the consumer brand NEWater.
For consumers, the most important goal is that more spectrum become available, and that this spectrum arrives in the hands of market participants that are most willing and most able to build out wireless infrastructure for consumer consumption.
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While it isn't as solidly constructed as its predecessor -- seams where body panels met weren't uniform, and the power button had shallower travel than we'd like -- the B still strikes us as a sturdy device, and, of course, it's not built for consumer consumption anyway.
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Weak consumption has been a drag on consumer stocks, but as the economy starts to go up over the next 12 months, consumption-related stocks will recover.
As income per capita gets above those levels you start seeing consumption of cars, all consumer durables, cellphone usage, etc.
He notes that with little fanfare the Fed recently switched its inflation benchmark from the Personal Consumption Expenditure deflator to the Consumer Price Index.
General governmental final consumption expenditures on individual goods and services consist of outlays of government institutions on consumer goods and services intended for personal consumption.
Relative to American consumer spending, Asian consumption has soared (see chart 2).
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This iteration seems more compelling in the sense that the chips can monitor grid conditions directly and minimizes the impact on consumer by reducing power consumption in more nuanced ways.
Ms. Davda says there is a trend in India toward out-of-home consumption and a steady shift in consumer preferences, with coffee changing from a beverage that was consumed mostly in South India to one sipped nationwide.
Russia has achieved this success not by coddling its job creators or by adopting radically free-market and business-friendly policies, but by supporting consumer demand, encouraging consumption, and loosening credit within the confines of its (deeply flawed) preexisting economic structures.
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Reader apps are taking over news consumption thanks to a new cadre of consumer and b2b platforms.
As their incomes rise, so will consumption, making China the third-largest consumer market in the world after the United States and Japan.
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Consumer confidence wanes, impacting personal consumption expenditures.
Final consumption expenditures of households include outlays for purchasing consumer goods and services from all trading enterprises and city markets, non-organised trade (street vendors), from public service, passenger transport, communications establishments, hotels, commercial Institutions of culture, health care and education.
Changes in consumption habits are evident in the exploding use of consumer credit cards.
From the consumer perspective, mainstream awareness of sustainable consumption will not reach fruition in the near future.
Retail sales, which represent about 35% of household consumption, have been growing much faster than total consumer spending.
Yet, most China consumer observers agree that the majority of luxury consumption happens outside of the so-called tier-1 cities of Shanghai and Beijing.
In 2009, the Chinese consumer accounted for 4% of global middle class consumption.
The government promoted the import of raw materials and technology at the expense of consumer goods, and encouraged savings and investment over consumption.
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