By Johannes Birkebaek COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Danish dairy firm Arla lowered its full-year sales forecast on Tuesday, saying inflation and the rising cost of living in Europe were prompting consumers…
TRENTON – In a move aimed at enhancing transparency and fairness for consumers, Governor Phil Murphy has signed A4284/S3508 into law, a legislation that prohibits certain surcharges for credit card…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A unit of the Experian credit reporting bureau agreed to pay a $650,000 civil fine to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges it spammed consumers with…
By Granth Vanaik (Reuters) – Target is expected to post its first quarterly drop in revenue in about six years when it reports results on Wednesday, as the big-box retailer…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Euro zone consumers expect inflation to keep slowing in the next months and years but remain pessimistic about their purchasing power and house prices, a European Central…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico– U.S. Customs and Border Protection, along with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, seized a shipment of school supplies in San Juan, P.R., recently that violated federal…
Brits May Ditch Net Zero Policies As Increased Prices Burn Consumers Nick Pope on July 24, 2023 The U.K. government may pivot away from its embrace of green energy and…
By Nupur Anand NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. consumers are still keeping up with their loan payments despite rising costs and a worsening economic outlook, according to executives at the…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Euro zone consumers in May cut their inflation expectations again for the following 12 months, although they still saw prices growing faster than the European Central Bank (ECB)…
By Casey Hall and Sophie Yu SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s e-commerce platforms are competing fiercely in the country’s first major shopping festival after the pandemic, offering steep discounts to entice…
LINDA MCMAHON: Biden’s EV Diktat Will Cost Consumers And Threaten Jobs Linda McMahon on June 14, 2023 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced aggressive C02 mandates, with the expressed…
By John Kemp LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. domestic banks reported a widespread tightening of lending standards by the end of the first quarter of 2023 – even before the full…
By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – British consumer confidence has risen for the fourth month in a row to its highest in 15 months as households take a more positive…
By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Global hedge funds’ bearish positions reached year highs in April, largely aimed at companies selling non-essential consumer products, in a bet that harsher economic…
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean consumers’ inflation expectations fell in April to the lowest in nearly a year, a central bank survey showed on Wednesday, while overall consumer sentiment hit…
Conservative Group Launches ‘Woke Alerts’ To Notify Consumers Of Left-Wing Brands Mary Lou Masters on April 14, 2023 A conservative organization has launched a campaign to send out “Woke Alerts”…
By Liangping Gao and Marius Zaharia BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Liu Baoxiang, who runs a mahjong parlour in a city on China’s rust belt, no longer splurges on extravagant fashion…
Biden’s EPA Chief Claims New Emissions Crackdown Gives Consumers ‘Options’ To ‘Protect’ The Planet Harold Hutchison on April 12, 2023 The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claimed Wednesday…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday approved a $75 million settlement between Smithfield Foods Inc and a class of consumers who accused the pork producer of…
By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. consumers are increasingly canceling dinner, night club, and pool cabana reservations as they grow more selective with discretionary spending, according to data…
By Molly Cone TORONTO (Reuters) – When the Bank of Canada became the first major global central bank this month to pause raising interest rates after its most aggressive tightening…
New Biden Admin Rules Could Cost Consumers Billions On Household Appliances John Hugh DeMastri on March 6, 2023 A pair of proposed rules from the Biden administration’s Department of Energy…
By Julie Ingwersen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Nearly all corn and soybean acres in the world’s largest exporting countries are seeded with genetically modified varieties, but that is not the case…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG has agreed to pay $30 million to settle claims by health plans and consumers that it schemed to delay the U.S.…