durables

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Consumer durables growth has collapsed from 11% to 1-2%.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

More likely are gradual and targeted policies, such as raising incomes for low-income households or shifting the recent trade-in and subsidy programs for durables like household appliances and cars into services.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

The behavior is that middle-income households have spent refund checks on deferred durables for decades.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026

Expenditure on durables rose 2.0%, while expenditure on services fell 0.1% and non-durables fell 0.2%, the data showed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Moldova has no major mineral resources and has depended on the     former Soviet republics for coal, oil, gas, steel, most electronic     equipment, machine tools, and major consumer durables such as automobiles.

From The 1992 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency