consumer

And when it came to lower-income consumers in particular, they tried to tamp down Wall Street’s concerns.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has denied leaks ahead of the Budget have damaged the economy, following criticism the speculation has "caused paralysis among businesses and consumers".

Stronger safeguards are needed in new legislation for non-surgical procedures like fillers and Botox, Scotland's statutory consumer body has said.

Applied widely to a lower-income population, they could, hypothetically, foster more consumer choice.

America’s biggest retailers have discovered that the consumer is far from dead.