US Consumer Dashboard
Retail sales, sector contributions, personal income & consumption, and consumer sentiment — sourced live from the U.S. Census Bureau, BEA, and FRED, with Conference Board / UMich components updated from press releases.
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Retail Sales — Monthly Change
(% change from preceding month, seasonally adjusted; Total YoY shown as a line on the right axis)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Monthly Retail Trade (MARTS) via FRED — RSAFS, RSFSXMV, control group computed from sectors.
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Retail Sales — Contribution by Sector
(Stacked bars sum to total MoM %; each segment is the sector's contribution in percentage points)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau MARTS via FRED — 12 NAICS retail sectors, contribution = (sector Δ) / total_{t-1}.
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Personal Income & Consumption — Nominal MoM
(% change from preceding month; total Personal Income, Disposable Personal Income, Personal Consumption Expenditures — current dollars)
Source: BEA via FRED — PI, DSPI, PCE.
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Personal Income & Consumption — Real MoM
(% change from preceding month; chained 2017 dollars — deflated by the PCE price index)
Source: BEA via FRED — RPI, DSPIC96, PCEC96.
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UMich Consumer Sentiment
(Index, 1966 Q1 = 100; total Index of Consumer Sentiment plus Expectations and Current Conditions sub-indices)
Source: University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers — UMCSENT (FRED) for total; ICE / ICC components from
data/historical/umich_sentiment.csv.
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Conference Board Consumer Confidence
(Index, 1985 = 100; CCI plus Expectations Index and Present Situation Index)
Source: The Conference Board, Consumer Confidence Survey — loaded from
data/historical/conference_board.csv.
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