What matters most, however, is the labor market. “If American consumers have money, they’re going to spend it, and the ...

The Trump administration’s quest to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could soon get an assist from Republicans in Congress. As part of their sprawling tax and budget bill ...

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional panel is considering legislation on Wednesday that looks to drastically curtail existing government efforts to police consumer financial ...

"This is telling us that [trade uncertainty] is getting to the consumer," Yelena Shulyatyeva, senior US economist at the Conference Board, told Yahoo Finance in an interview on Tuesday.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was one of the early targets of the Trump administration's attempts to dramatically reduce government spending. The bureau's work was first suspended in ...

As President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting crusade targets the government agency tasked with financial oversight for consumers, dozens of regulations have been caught in the crosshairs. The ...

Emails and testimonials from workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau document the administration’s efforts to lay off 90 percent of the employees. By Stacy Cowley Consumer finance ...

WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer sentiment ebbed for a fourth straight month in April amid concerns about the economic impact of tariffs. The University of Michigan Surveys of ...

The Spanish bank is seeking to get regulatory approval to shift the consumer finance business out of its Santander UK Plc subsidiary, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing the ...

The mass firings carried out at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) were halted, at least temporarily, by a federal judge on Friday. The agency said it had dismissed between 1,400 and ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is drastically shrinking the workforce and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, eviscerating an agency created after the Great Recession ...