...bracing for a lackluster Christmas. "Which way is the rollercoaster going to go? We just don't know," said Dr. Sandra Shaber, senior vice president at Wefa Inc., an economic forecasting firm. "But we know it won't be a record breaker...

...in wages and salaries of private-sector jobs. "People spend that money; they don't save it," said economist Sandra Shaber of the WEFA Group in Eddystone, Pa. "More jobs and more paychecks certainly equal growth in spending in the months...

...banking on the Fed not tightening at the next meeting and I think there's a good chance of that," said economist Sandra Shaber of the WEFA Group in Eddystone, Pa. In March, the Federal Reserve engineered a quarter-point interest rate increase...