Today, the 12bet官方 研究所 released its 本地消费者商业指数 (LCCI)于2017年1月生效, which showed that all 15 of the US cities analyzed had lower year-over-year consumer spending growth rates in January compared to December 2016, and only four had positive growth rates. Overall, year-over-year consumer spending declined by 0.1月份为7%. 然而, 2016年5月, much of this decline can be attributed to “day of week” (DOW) effects, as January 2016 had an extra Friday and Saturday.

Data visualization of the changes in local consumer spending growth over the last 24 months can be found online.

Restaurants experienced a rare decline in January 2017, subtracting 0.比增长率低2个百分点. Large business growth remained positive at 1.一个百分点, but that growth was more than offset by declines in small and medium size business growth, 减少了0.4和1.分别为4个百分点.

This report provides a timely view of how the following cities and surrounding metro areas are faring economically, both individually and in aggregate: Atlanta, 芝加哥, 哥伦布, 达拉斯-沃斯堡, 丹佛, 底特律, 休斯顿, 迈阿密, 洛杉矶, 纽约, 凤凰城, 波特兰(或), 圣地亚哥, 旧金山, 和西雅图. 通过观察实际情况, 去识别金融交易, LCCI提供了一个持续的, dynamic view of the financial health of the US consumer and vibrancy of the places where 企业 operate.

“Although January 2017 experienced a decline in growth, fuel spending has increased for two consecutive months,” Diana Farrell, President and CEO of the 12bet官方 研究所. “This is a marked departure from a lengthy period of negative growth in virtually every month over more than two years. This uptick in fuel spending moderated an otherwise fairly general decline in local consumer commerce.”

Additional key highlights from the latest Index include:

• 纽约 slowed from a 2 percent growth rate in December 2016 to a 0.2017年1月的增长率为3%. Despite this contraction, 纽约 retained the highest growth rate of all large LCCI cities.
• 所有年龄组, with the notable exception of consumers aged 65 experienced lower growth contributions in January than December
• All income groups had lower growth contributions in January 2017 relative to December 2016.
• Fuel spending continued to pick up from its trend breaking growth contribution of 0.一个百分点 in November 2016, contributing 0.5 percentage points to growth in January 2017. As before, this is largely an effect of rising fuel prices.

The LCCI offers unique advantages over existing measures of consumer spending.

• LCCI捕获实际的事务, instead of self-reported measures of how consumers think they spend.
• The LCCI provides timely on spending in 15 major metropolitan areas; such geographic 粒度 is unavailable in most other spending measures. These 15 cities mirror the geographic and economic 多样性 of larger metropolitan areas in the United States and account for 32 percent of retail sales nationwide.
• The index also presents a more granular view of local consumer commerce through five important lenses: consumer age, 消费者收入, 业务规模, 产品类型, and consumer residence relative to the location of the business. For each lens, we show how different segments contributed to year-over-year spending growth.
• The LCCI captures economic activity in sectors that previously have not been well understood by other sources. These include sectors such as food trucks, new merchants, and personal services.

Each release of the LCCI describes the economic picture of local communities and provides a powerful tool for city development officials, 企业, 投资者, and statistical agencies to better understand the everyday economic health of consumers, 企业, 以及他们关心的地方.