{"id":323711,"date":"2025-12-01T07:29:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323711\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T07:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:29:18","slug":"black-friday-spending-reflects-k-shaped-us-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323711\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday spending reflects K-shaped US economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Friday spending reflected the forces shaping the US economy.<\/p>\n<p>Retail sales on the country\u2019s busiest shopping day of the year climbed 4.1% compared to 2024, according to Mastercard, mirroring analysts\u2019 assessments that US consumers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/10\/15\/2025\/walmart-us-ceo-on-tariffs-customers-are-resilient\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"no-referrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">remain resilient<\/a> despite tariffs and a cooling job market. <\/p>\n<p>But the spending figures don\u2019t account for sticky inflation, so actual gains may be marginal. <\/p>\n<p>Black Friday was also \u201cK-shaped,\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/29\/business\/black-friday-us-econony-spending\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">wealthier Americans spending more<\/a> and low- and middle-income consumers pulling back: The US Federal Reserve\u2019s latest Beige Book of economic anecdotes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-11-26\/fed-s-beige-book-shows-k-shaped-split-deepens-among-consumers\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">showed this trend deepening<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>AI, which has boosted markets, is also propelling holiday shopping, as AI-driven traffic to US retail sites <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/retail-consumer\/us-consumers-spent-118-billion-black-friday-says-adobe-analytics-2025-11-29\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">soared 805%<\/a> on Friday compared to last year, Adobe Analytics said.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6f138612d4604ff349e41d8a9ea32763f06e638a-1066x984.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"738\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"styles_imageEmbed__QsLwb styles_fullContentArea__zXct_\" style=\"color:transparent\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Black Friday spending reflected the forces shaping the US economy. Retail sales on the country\u2019s busiest shopping day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-323711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}