Last mentioned: Mar 12, 2026
GDP Report Released
Department of Commerce reports 1.4% growth, missing expectations.
Q4 Conclusion
Quarter ends with noticeable declines in manufacturing and housing starts.
Spending Slowdown
Early indicators suggest a cooling in holiday retail activity.
Strong Q2 Growth
US economy shows resilience with growth exceeding 3%.
The US economy expanded at a 1.4% annualized rate in the final quarter of 2025, falling short of economist expectations and signaling a significant cooling trend. This deceleration highlights the cumulative impact of high interest rates on consumer spending and business investment as the year concluded.
This page surfaces every story mentioning U.S. Consumers across our finance coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running finance beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where U.S. Consumers was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |