consumer durables
plural noun
British
: products (such as cars and stoves) that usually last a very long time : durable goods
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The top sub-sectors were retailing, consumer durables, and semiconductors, while technical hardware, banks, and utilities were the worst.
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Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
The top-performing subsectors were retail, pharmaceuticals, and consumer durables.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
The top-performing subsectors were food, healthcare equipment, and consumer durables.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
Most sectors trade lower with the largest losses among process industries, energy minerals and consumer durables.
—WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
Tens of millions of entrepreneurs from humble backgrounds built factories that flooded China with consumer durables, construction materials, food, and labor-intensive goods.
—Yasheng Huang, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
The top-performing subsectors were food/beverages/tobacco, consumer durables and consumer services, while media, food staples and technical hardware were among the worst.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
Comparable sales in the U.S. are set to climb 6% in the second quarter, which is higher than expected, and the company has also made progress in clearing out inventories of consumer durables.
—Allison Nicole Smith, Fortune, 26 July 2022
This has led analysts to make statements to the effect that core inflation would have been 2 points lower if consumer durables hadn’t gone up in price.
—Jason Furman, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
The top-performing subsectors were retail, pharmaceuticals, and consumer durables.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
The top-performing subsectors were food, healthcare equipment, and consumer durables.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
Most sectors trade lower with the largest losses among process industries, energy minerals and consumer durables.
—WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
Tens of millions of entrepreneurs from humble backgrounds built factories that flooded China with consumer durables, construction materials, food, and labor-intensive goods.
—Yasheng Huang, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
The top-performing subsectors were food/beverages/tobacco, consumer durables and consumer services, while media, food staples and technical hardware were among the worst.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
Comparable sales in the U.S. are set to climb 6% in the second quarter, which is higher than expected, and the company has also made progress in clearing out inventories of consumer durables.
—Allison Nicole Smith, Fortune, 26 July 2022
This has led analysts to make statements to the effect that core inflation would have been 2 points lower if consumer durables hadn’t gone up in price.
—Jason Furman, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
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“Consumer durables.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consumer%20durables. Accessed 21 Sep. 2024.
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