The Fed chief spoke amid word of higher U.S.consumer spending, which rose 1.3 percent in August the biggest jump in nearly eight years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of the U.S.economy and is closely linked to unemployment.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

Consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S.economic activity.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

But recent reports showed U.S.consumer confidence dipping and consumer spending down as government subsidies to purchase new cars have ended and tax credits for first-time home buyers are soon to expire.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

An industry group, the Financial Services Roundtable, says it supports many of the administration's proposals but not for a consumer protection agency.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

"In Canada it's pretty much the same as the U.S. It's very consumer based, where we buy chocolate.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

The crop must be destroyed. Uganda is Africa's leading producer and consumer of bananas.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

This year's Consumer Electronics Show opened Thursday in Las Vegas.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

Coal fuels 70 percent of China's energy consumption, making the country the largest consumer and producer of coal in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

There are both private and public hospitals and it's very consumer driven because most people pay for their own medical care.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

The International Energy Agency recently said China has become the world's biggest energy consumer - surpassing the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

That's a view shared by Gregory Jaffe at the consumer group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Now,it is relying on China's cheap labor and the emergence of a consumer culture to help claw the world out of the financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

The US is the number one consumer in the world,says Erik Assadourian, the study's project director.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

He says the U.S.consumer has cut spending. That may mean exporters will have to boost demand in their own nations to keep their economies growing.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

heads the group's consumer research center. "Confidence is on the mend.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

After two men died of heat-related causes in Moscow's metro, a consumer group sued the transit operator to bring down temperatures to the legal maximum of 32 degrees centigrade.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

He says providers will release information without the consumer's knowledge.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

"And when people have fears, they are not going to buy and so there's going to be a significant pullback of consumer confidence, pullback of consumer trust in their products, which is going to reach all the way down into their sales,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.28