Consumption expenditures

CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES
Expenditures made by the household sector on final goods and services, or gross domestic product.

Personal Consumption Expenditures - PCE
A measure of price changes in consumer goods and services.

Personal Consumption Expenditures Abbreviated as PCE, refers to those funds spent on goods and services targeted...

net national saving (net national income less private consumption expenditures less government consumption expenditures, all divided by net national income) averaged only 5.3 percent. In contrast, the nation's saving rate was 7.

On the other side of the ledger - inflation - the Fed's preferred price index for core personal consumption expenditures is up by only 1.5 per cent on a year ago and that compares to the Fed's objective of 2% and may fall further in the coming months.

The sum of government spending, personal consumption expenditures, and business expenditures.
Aggregation ...

In practice, consumption expenditures include all consumer goods bought, many of which last well beyond the period in question --e.g., furniture, clothing, and automobiles.
Consumer spending - The purchase of consumer goods and services.

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