US consumers “cautiously optimistic” overall

23 February 2021

 

Summary: US consumer confidence rises in February; Conference Board index increases, more than expected; view of present conditions improve, views of future conditions slip slightly; economic growth “not slowed further”, consumers “cautiously optimistic” overall.   After the GFC in 2008/09, US consumer confidence clawed its way back to neutral over a number of years and then went from strength to strength until late 2018. Measures of consumer confidence then oscillated...

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