Sentence examples for heightened consumer spending from inspiring English sources

The report comes as MasterCard announced a 24% jump in earnings thanks to heightened consumer spending.

Eventually, the casual trend will slow to a level of demand that satisfies basic replenishment needs, but for now we expect heightened consumer confidence to encourage spending beyond basic needs.

Heightened consumer awareness of disease increased intervention acceptability.

Fed officials said they expected growth to be "more sluggish than they had originally anticipated" and predicted weak consumer spending and "heightened uncertainty" in financial markets.

Although there is as yet little evidence of the type of destabilizing inflationary pressures observed in the aftermath of previous oil price spikes or of exceptionally large restraint on consumer spending, Middle East tensions have heightened such risks.

Investors have been unnerved in recent weeks by the rise in oil prices resulting from the conflict in Libya, which has heightened concerns that the higher prices could slow consumer spending.

Recent data on weak consumer spending and retail sales might have heightened market anticipation of this month's report.

Asian stocks were mostly lower Thursday on a fresh record high in oil prices, weakness in U.S. employment and heightened fears that stagflation will continue to damage company earnings and consumer spending.

The wariness of game industry investors is heightened by concerns that inflation will drive up interest rates, cutting into consumer spending.

The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday that pending sales of American homes fell by 4.7percentt in May from the previous month, heightening concerns that the struggling housing market would stifle consumer spending.

Today's figures heightened fears of a deep recession for the world's biggest economy, as consumer spending makes up two thirds of total economic activity in the US.