Financial uncertainty is causing anxiety for many this holiday season. NPR's A Martinez asks a personal finance journalist for tips on holiday shopping this year. There's a lot of financial ...

The tone for 2025’s holiday season was set early as forecasts for consumer spending predicted sales would grow healthily, even if underlying volumes didn’t. Shoppers, already pushed close to their ...

Deloitte estimates that holiday retail sales will grow between 2.9% and 3.4% in 2025 for a total of $1.61 trillion to $1.62 trillion. During the last holiday shopping season, retail sales grew 4.2% ...

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Trina Paul is a Breaking News and Personal Finance Writer at Investopedia, covering topics like retirement, consumer debt, and retail investing. She focuses on making complex financial topics ...

This holiday season, the world feels heavy. There's war, political division, and economic uncertainty converging to weigh us down — on top of the emotional and financial stressors people often ...

During the 22 days leading up to the 2025 Spring Festival, cross-regional mobility surged to more than 5.5 billion trips, marking an 8 percent increase year-on-year. A July survey, also by NielsenIQ, ...

Whether it’s donating money to a worthy cause in a loved one’s name, or getting said loved one to join you for a day of volunteering (and then going for a merry little drink after), acts of service ...