In May, the Deloitte Consumer Spending Index posted its first three-month increase since September 2010.The index tracks consumer cash flow as an indicator of future consumer spending. "The index's increase is due to an ongoing slowdown in a

The American Trucking Association's advanced seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage index fell 0.7 percent in May. This slight decrease follows a 1.1 percent decline in April, which was reported on May 22. The latest drop lowered the to a

Information technology operational budgets across the U.S. and Canada are rising 2.2 percent at the median this year, a rate that is a slight improvement compared with the 2 percent growth in 2011, says the recently released IT benchmarking study a

Even as the job market has rebounded during the last two years, the employment prospects for young college graduates have continued to deteriorate, says a new report by Paul E. Harrington and Neeta P. Fogg, labor economists in Philadelphia-based of

Last month, as we reviewed questions for a Washington Business Survey that the Journal helped conduct, one question caught my eye and made me crack a grin.The question asked people whether they agree or disagree with the following statement: has

Popcorn maker starts to sell products via webMovie Style Popcorn Inc., a Spokane-based popcorn manufacturer, has begun offering direct retail sales through a website it launched last month, www.moviestylepopcorn.com. The company, owned by Frank

ULTA Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance Inc., a Bolingbrook, Ill.-based retailer of beauty products and salon services that does business as ULTA Beauty, plans to open an outlet in Coeur d'Alene later this month.Carolyn Sutphen, a spokeswoman with the

Idaho Trust Bank has bought a vacant bank building on the east end of downtown Coeur d'Alene where it has moved its North Idaho branch—and where it has room to expand in coming years, says Daniel Prohaska, the bank's co-founder and CEO.The