Retail gasoline prices. The most visible price in America; moves sentiment and presidential approval more than CPI does.
What to watch: AAA national average; EIA weekly. It arrives weekly, and the effect typically lasts weeks.
It sits in tier 2 — Directional: Moves the index for days or weeks. Scheduled data releases, policy decisions, global spillovers, and the prices of money and energy. This is the tier most professional attention is spent on.
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Also in Consumer and housing
- Retail sales
- Consumer confidence and sentiment
- Personal income, spending, and saving rate
- Consumer credit and delinquencies
- Housing starts and permits
- Existing and new home sales
- Home prices
- Mortgage rates and applications
- Household net worth and the wealth effect
- Household savings buffers
- Homeowners insurance availability and cost
- The K-shaped consumer
- Homebuilder sentiment and pending home sales
- Market rent indices
- Auto sales (SAAR) and inventories
- Restaurant same-store sales and hotel RevPAR
- Card-spending panels
- Residential electricity prices
- Childcare and tuition inflation
- Pet spending and vet prices