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New report: Consumers spent modestly in January

Americans backed off from holiday spending in January, but retail sales rose for a third month in a row compared with a year earlier, largely because of gas price hikes, according to figures released Wednesday by a key data service.

  • Ceridian Launches New Economic Indicator to Track the U.S. Economy

    /PRNewswire/ -- Ceridian Corporation today announced the release of a new economic indicator, the Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index™ by UCLA Anderson School of Management, developed in conjunction with economists at UCLA Anderson School of Management and Charles River Associates. It is a first of its kind indicator tracking the state and possible future direction of the U.S. economy. Ceridian today simultaneously announced the January index results, which showed a drop in January after a significant increase in December.

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