| All | Millennials | Generation Z | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wonder how friends can afford expensive experiences posted on social media | 60% | 72% | 74% |
| Pay more attention to how their friends spend versus save | 57% | 53% | 61% |
| Spent more money than they can afford to participate in experiences with friends | 35% | 48% | 41% |
| Influenced by social media to spend money on experiences | 34% | 49% | 44% |
| TIME (ET) | REPORT | PERIOD | ACTUAL | FORECAST | PREVIOUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MONDAY, APRIL 29 | |||||
| 8:30 am | Personal income | March | 0.4% | 0.2% | |
| 8:30 am | Consumer spending | March | 0.8% | 0.1% (Jan.) | |
| 8:30 am | Core inflation | March | 0.1% | 0.1% (Jan.) | |
| TUESDAY, APRIL 30 | |||||
| 8:30 am | Employment cost index | Q1 | 0.7% | 0.7% | |
| 9 am | Case-Shiller house price index | Feb. | — | 4.3% | |
| 9:45 am | Chicago PMI | April | — | 58.7 | |
| 10 am | Consumer confidence index | April | 126.6 | 124.1 | |
| 10 am | Pending home sales index | March | — | -1.0% | |
| WEDNESDAY,MAY 1 | |||||
| 8:15 am | ADP employment | April | — | 120,000 | |
| 9:45 am | Markit manufacturing PMI | April | — | 52.4 | |
| 10 am | ISM manufacturing index | April | 54.8% | 55.3% | |
| 10 am | Construction spending | March | -0.2% | 1.0% | |
| 2 pm | FOMC statement | 2.25-2.5% | 2.25-2.5% | ||
| 2:30 pm | Jerome Powell press conference | ||||
| Varies | Motor vehicle sales | April | 16.9mln | 17.5mln | |
| THURSDAY, MAY 2 | |||||
| 8:30 am | Weekly jobless claims | 4/27 | 218,000 | 230,000 | |
| 8:30 am | Productivity | Q1 | 2.8% | 1.9% | |
| 8:30 am | Unit labor costs | Q1 | 0.7% | 2.0% | |
| 10 am | Factory orders | March | 1.6% | -0.5% | |
| FRIDAY, MAY 3 | |||||
| 8:30 am | Nonfarm payrolls | April | 190,000 | 196,000 | |
| 8:30 am | Unemployment rate | April | 3.8% | 3.8% | |
| 8:30 am | Average hourly earnings | April | 0.2% | 0.1% | |
| 8:30 am | Advance trade in goods (new date) | March | $73.0bln | N/A | |
| 9:45 am | Markit services PMI | April | — | 52.9 | |
| 10 am | ISM nonmanufacturing index | April | 57.5% | 56.1% | |
Economic Reports
4/22 Chicago Fed Nat’l Activ. (-0.29 prior)
4/22 Existing home sales (5.51 mil.)
4/23 New home sales (667,000)
4/25 Jobless claims
4/25 Durable goods orders (-1.6%)
4/25 Core capex orders (-0.1%)
4/25 Q1 GDP (forecast 1.5%, prior 2.2%)
4/25 Consumer sentiment (96.9)
Earnings (Date, Company, Consensus Estimate)
4/22 Whirlpool $2.87
4/22 Wynn $1.59
4/23 Coca-Cola $0.46
4/23 Goodyear $0.06
4/23 JetBlue $0.12
4/23 Lockheed Martin $4.34
4/23 Procter & Gamble $1.03
4/23 Nucor $1.50
4/23 Snap -$0.12
4/23 Twitter $0.15
4/23 Verizon $1.17
4/24 American Airlines $0.51
4/24 AT&T $0.86
4/24 Boeing $3.33
4/24 Chipotle $0.05
4/24 Dunkin’ Brands $0.62
4/24 Domino’s $2.09
4/24 Facebook $1.63
4/24 Microsoft $1.00
4/24 Packaging Corp of America $1.96
4/24 PayPal $0.68
4/24 Tesla -$.069
4/24 Visa $1.24
4/25 3M $2.57
4/25 Amazon.com $4.72
4/25 Caterpillar $2.86
4/25 Southwest Airlines $0.61
4/25 Bristol-Myers Squibb $1.09
4/25 Intel $0.87
4/25 Ford $0.26
4/25 McClatchy -$1.98
4/25 Tractor Supply $0.55
4/26 ADM $0.61
4/26 Chevron $1.36
4/26 Exxon Mobil $0.74
4/26 Weyerhaeuser $0.10
4/26 Colgate-Palmolive $0.66
4/26 Interpublic $0.04
OECD (2019), Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class, OECD Publishing, Paris,https://doi.org/10.1787/689afed1-en.
Read-Only Version:
| Song | Date of No. 1 peak on charts |
| Miss You | Aug. 5, 1978 |
| Angie | Oct. 20, 1973 |
| Brown Sugar | May 29, 1971 |
| Honky Tonk Women | Aug. 23, 1969 |
| Ruby Tuesday | March 4, 1967 |
| Paint It, Black | June 11, 1966 |
| Get Off Of My Cloud | Nov. 6, 1965 |
| (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction | July 10, 1965 |
Amazon said the number of Alexa “skills,” the voice-powered apps created for Amazon’s virtual assistant, topped 80,000 worldwide in early 2019.
The number of Alexa skills in the United States more than doubled to 56,750 in January 2019 from 25,784 a year earlier, according to Voicebot.ai. Alexa skill growth in the U.K. rose 233% to 29,910, while Germany’s skill count rose 152% to 7,869.
Number of Alexa Skills by Country, January 2019
| US | 56750 |
| UK | 29910 |
| Canada | 22873 |
| Australia | 22398 |
| Germany | 7869 |
| Japan | 2364 |
| France | 981 |
Google Assistant has “actions” as the apps that expand its capabilities beyond search.
Number of Google Assistant Actions in United States
| January 2019 | 4253 |
| January 2018 | 1719 |
| October 2017 | 724 |
| August | 468 |
| July | 378 |
| June | 304 |
| May | 232 |
| April | 165 |
Google Assistant Apps by Category – January 2019
| Category | % |
| Education and reference | 15.07 |
| Games and fun | 11.07 |
| Kids and family | 9.29 |
| News and magazines | 7.69 |
| Home Control | 6.91 |
| Travel and transportation | 5.60 |
| Shopping | 5.58 |
| Business and finance | 5.41 |
| Arts and lifestyle | 4.73 |
| Health and fitness | 4.25 |
| Social and communication | 4.03 |
| Music and audio | 3.83 |
| Food and drink | 3.50 |
| Productivity | 3.41 |
| Sports | 2.92 |
| Music, photos and TV | 2.76 |
| Local | 2.62 |
| Weather | 1.32 |
Chinese news agency Xinhua’s first female artificial intelligence (AI) news presenter signals a threat to human news readers.
Other reading:
The Fight to Be a Middle-Aged Female News Anchor: “The average age of the anchors who lost their jobs was 46.8, while their replacements averaged 38.1 years. In one case, the difference was more than two decades,” reporter Steve Cavendish writes in the New York Times.
Older women on US television send subliminal message, Gillian Tett writes in the Financial Times.
Fewer Americans rely on TV news; what type they watch varies by who they are, according to Pew Research Center.
% of U.S. adults who get news on each TV segment
| 2017 | 2016 | |
| Local TV | 37% | 46% |
| Network TV | 26% | 30% |
| Cable TV | 28% | 31% |
% of U.S. adults who get news often on each platform
| 2018 | 2016 | |
| TV | 49% | 57% |
| News website | 33% | 28% |
| Radio | 26% | 25% |
| Social media | 20% | 18% |
| Print newspapers | 16% | 20% |
Percentage of Streaming Viewers Who Use Another Subscriber’s Account
| Group (Birth Years*) / Service | Netflix | Amazon Prime Video | Hulu |
| Millennials (1981-1996) | 18.1% | 17.7% | 20.0% |
| Generation X (1965-1980) | 8.9% | 12.7% | 16.7% |
| Baby Boomers (1946-1964) | 10.9% | 19.5% | 17.8% |
| Total | 15% | 16.5% | 19.2% |
Source: CordCutters.com survey of 1,127 people using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk; 50.9 percent of survey participants were men, and 49.1 percent were women. Participants ranged in age from 18 to 81 with a mean of 37 and a standard deviation of 11.9. Respondents were disqualified from the survey if they didn’t use a video streaming service.
*Birth years from Pew Research Center.
Where do you get your fashion inspiration from?
| Source | Total Percentage |
| 56% | |
| 53% | |
| TV | 48% |
| 46% | |
| Fashion Magazines | 36% |
| Snapchat | 26% |
| Other | 20% |
Source: Fashion Path to Purchase Study by Facebook IQ, Qualtrics-fielded survey of 6,090 men and women ages 18-64 in US, UK, DE, FR, IT and ES. The data were adjusted by the number of monthly active users of that particular platform (October 2017).