consumer

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Private-credit investments—which can include loans to businesses as well as pools of consumer debt such as car loans or credit-card debt—offered higher yields than plain-vanilla corporate and government bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Together this means that Chevron can extract its own Venezuelan oil, process it itself, and get it directly to the US consumer.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

That has an impact on makers of consumer hardware that also count memory as a key component.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

“This demand strength comes from a combination of persistent workload shift to the cloud and the growing consumer and enterprise adoption of AI,” analyst Erik W. Woodring wrote.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

Even though lead was widely known to be dangerous, by the early years of the twentieth century it could be found in all manner of consumer products.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson