今天，12bet官方研究所发布了其 本地消费商业指数(LCCI) for December 2017, which showed that local spending declined 0.5 percent from December 2016, a notable decrease from the 1.2017年11月增长了8%. While half of the 14 metro areas analyzed experienced a decline, 被分析的6个大都市区的支出有所增加, 还有一个是平的. 休斯顿, which posted its fourth straight month of positive year-over-year growth after Hurricane Harvey, had the highest year-over-year growth rate among all cities, 增长了2%. 迈阿密，年增长率为0.7%, was the only metro area east of the Mississippi River to register positive year-over-year growth in December 2017.

2月底，12bet官方研究所(12bet官方 研究所)发布了一份报告 摘要系列 on the financial impact of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma on consumers, 企业 and local commerce. That report found a notable increase in spending activity as the 休斯顿 and Miami communities recovered from their respective hurricanes.

Year-over-year growth in small metro-areas remained flat in December 2017, while large and mid-sized metro areas saw respective declines of 0.6%和0.与2016年12月相比，下降了2%.

“支出 at local merchants took a hit in the 2017 holiday season, with a 0.5 percent decline compared to December spending in 2016,” said Diana Farrell，12bet官方研究所总裁兼首席执行官. “With seven of our cities registering negative year-over-year growth, it appears that shopping at local brick and mortar locations took a dive this holiday season.  即使是在同比增长的城市, only 休斯顿 saw an increase greater than 1 percent over spending that took place in December 2016.”

Data visualization of the changes in year-over-year local consumer spending growth over the last 24 months can be found online.

This LCCI report provides a timely view of how the following cities and surrounding metro areas are faring economically, 无论是个人还是整体:亚特兰大, 芝加哥, 哥伦布, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Denver, Detroit, 休斯顿, Miami, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, Portland (Ore.)、圣地亚哥和旧金山. 通过观察实际情况, 去识别金融交易, LCCI提供了一个持续的, 对美国金融健康的动态看法.S. consumer and the vibrancy of the places where 企业 operate.

最新指数的其他主要亮点包括:

• 休斯顿，2分.同比增长0%, was the only metro area to register year-over-year growth greater than 0.8%(旧金山)
• Three months after Hurricane Irma, year-over-year spending in Miami grew 0.7%. This is its third consecutive month of year-over-year growth.
• Miami was the only LCC metro area east of the Mississippi River to register positive year-over-year growth.
• Dallas registered the lowest growth rate among all 14 cities, with 2.同比增长下降2%, 这表明德州各地的支出模式并不统一.
• 35岁以下的消费者贡献了1%.5 percent in year-over-year growth while consumers 55 and over subtracted 1.同比增长下降了7个百分点.
• 餐馆消费贡献了0.5%.同比增长4个百分点, while spending on non-durable goods subtracted one percentage point from year-over-year growth.
• 低收入消费者贡献0.8 percentage points of year-over-year growth while spending among high income consumers remained flat.
• 大企业贡献1.2 percentage points to year-over-year growth, while small business contributed 0.6 percentage points to year-over-year growth and contributions from mid-sized 企业 remained flat.

The LCCI offers unique advantages over existing measures of consumer spending. 

• LCCI捕获实际的事务, instead of self-reported measures of how consumers think they spend.
• The LCCI provides timely data on spending in 14 major metropolitan areas; such geographic 粒度 is unavailable in most other spending measures. These 14 metro areas mirror the geographic and economic 多样性 of larger metropolitan areas in the United States and account for 30 percent of retail sales nationwide.
• The LCCI also presents a more granular view of local consumer commerce through five important lenses: consumer age, 消费者收入, 业务规模, 产品类型, and consumer residence relative to the location of the business. For each lens, we show how different segments contributed to year-over-year spending growth.
• The LCCI captures economic activity in sectors that previously have not been well understood by other data sources.   These include sectors such as food trucks, new merchants, and personal services.

Each release of the LCCI describes the economic picture of local communities and provides a powerful tool for metro area development officials, 企业, 投资者, and statistical agencies to better understand the everyday economic health of consumers, 企业, 以及他们关心的地方.