Explore the consumer discretionary sector, its impact on economic growth indicators, and why spending varies with income ...

Pam Childers says commissioners' discretionary spending can give the appearance of "currying votes." Some commissioners say ...

Discover how the U.S. federal budget works, its role in government spending, and its historical evolution, including details ...

Discretionary income is money that people have left to spend after they pay all bills and necessary expenses for the month. Marketing products that are discretionary purchases is different than ...

As the earnings season kicks off, we look at mid-to-low market cap consumer discretionary stocks with strong earnings ...

As the earnings season kicks off, a review of mid to low cap consumer discretionary stocks reveals several companies ...

Retail sales fell in October for the first time in seven months, we learned today. Consumers are starting to spend less on all sorts of things, including cars, furniture, building supplies, books and ...

On Friday, the USPTO designated a series of decisions on discretionary denial requests as either precedential or informative, ...

Back in March, I wrote about Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart’s overhaul of the pre-institution discretionary denial process. Since then, much has been written on the topic and, for better or worse ...

Discretionary spending is budgeted on a yearly basis, and any projected discretionary spending numbers after 2007 hold no statutory weight, but serve only as temporary placeholders to make future ...