The CFPB has long survived existential threats, including a few court cases that challenged its constitutionality. However, the Trump administration's cuts are its biggest test yet, and it’s becoming ...

Real consumer spending, adjusted for inflation, fell 0.3% from April, the biggest monthly drop since January, according to a ...

The consumer discretionary sector is "dead last" among the 11 S&P 500 industry groups for the year to date, said J.D. Joyce, president of Houston financial advisory Joyce Wealth Management. That's ...

The Consumer Confidence Index shed 5.4 points month over month, to 93 in June, reflecting Americans’ growing pessimism about ...

Well, consumers were still pretty optimistic about their current and future finances. Now finances include not only your ...

At the same time, a solid majority of Americans remain optimistic about their financial future, according to TransUnion ’s Consumer Pulse Study for the second quarter of 2025.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau first suspended many of its services in February after an order from the Trump administration’s U.S. DOGE Service. Since then, its workers have been ...

Its research team concluded consumer finances are in better shape than they were before COVID, but lower-income households are showing signs of strain.

President Trump's administration is drastically shrinking the size and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, part of a months-long gambit to scale back the financial regulator ...

Consumer confidence has plummeted in recent months, with expectations for the future of the economy reaching a 12-year low. But as headlines warn of a possible recession and uncertain times ahead ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s fate hangs in the balance, and with it the extent of the government’s oversight of Americans’ savings and $18 trillion in household debt.

Without the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency responsible for overseeing most aspects of the home buying process, consumer advocates say home buyers need to be their own watchdogs.