Examples include large and small appliances, consumer electronics, furniture, and furnishings. Consumer durables, also known as durable goods, are goods that do not need to be purchased very often ...

Orders for factory hard goods, for example, can provide information ... they are not purchased by the average consumer. Durable goods are those that generally last for more than three years ...

The spotlight will be on the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index and Durable Goods Orders, both of which are key indicators of economic health and consumer spending trends. Major Economic ...