Consumer Confidence

Since the ONS is publishing fresh GDP figures, it seemed timely to update my analysis looking at Google mobility data as a predictor of GDP. Now, the new ONS data will only update us up to the end of December 2021, and we are of course already well into February…

This post originally appeared on the Mastech InfoTrellis Blog. Author: Maria Singson, PhD | VP & General Manager, Data Science at Mastech InfoTrellis The year and a half after the COVID crash has left consumer confidence adrift on a never-before-seen kind of bubble. This one is different from what the…

United States consumer confidence has plummeted to a decade-low in November. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index fell to 66.8 in November, down sharply from the October figure of 71.7 and well below consensus forecasts of 72.4. …

We are inundated with media, pundits, and bloggers telling America what its opinion should be. We are similarly flooded with pollsters — who seem to get Presidential elections and politics in general abysmally wrong — telling us what we think. …

We are inundated with media, pundits, and bloggers telling America what its opinion should be. We are similarly flooded with pollsters — who seem to get Presidential elections and politics in general abysmally wrong — telling us what we think. …

Against my better judgement, I’m venturing into uncertain waters: since GDP data comes out several weeks after the fact and is regularly revised, I thought it would be interesting to see what the “pandemic fundamentals” are telling us about the state of the UK economy. It’s particularly hazardous to be…

While I’m a complete amateur when it comes to “big data”, I am pretty pleased with myself for having learned Python (and a little bit of Pandas) last Christmas. I have also started using Alteryx to avoid waiting for hours for Excel to “calculate”, only to have it crash in…

This blog post is a collaboration between Chase Buckle, Trends Manager of market research firm, GlobalWebIndex and Blis’ Head of Insight, Alex Wright. It’s probably safe to say that given how the first half of 2020 went, retailers will be pinning their hopes on the upcoming holiday shopping season. But…

I had the opportunity to speak with the small business community and members at Newmarket Chamber of Commerce, as Ontario entered the start of modified Stage-2 after being in Stage-3 for about 2.5 months. This change was brought on by increase in COVID-19 confirmed cases. We talked about the impact…