Consumer Confidence Rises Toward 18 Year High Again
Inflation is low. Jobs are plentiful. Savings are solid. Spending and incomes are rising. It’s a very good summer to be an American.

Inflation is low. Jobs are plentiful. Savings are solid. Spending and incomes are rising. It’s a very good summer to be an American.

Americans are not tired of winning yet. Consumer views of current economic conditions increased to a 17-year high, indicating that the economy is likely growing at a faster pace in the second quarter than it did in the first three months of 2018.

“Trump in one year is already better than sixteen years of [George W. Bush and Barack Obama] put together,” said former Wall Street Journal editor Brett M. Decker, pointing to a current 17-year high in consumer confidence.

U.S. consumer confidence continued to rise in the final months of President Donald Trump’s first year, hitting the highest level in 17 years, while unemployment has plunged to the lowest level during that same time.

Consumer confidence in the U.S. is soaring yet again as it reached a 17-year high this month, according to the latest Consumer Confidence Index survey.

Consumers’ confidence in the U.S. economy has reached its highest level in 17 years, according to the latest Consumer Confidence Index survey measuring consumer attitudes about the economy.

Measures of consumer and business confidence continue to defy experts by climbing ever higher since the election of President Donald Trump. Despite media reports of hate crimes and an ongoing narrative that America has unentered a period of uncertainty and ill-will, surveys of consumers show that Americans are feeling better than they have for nearly all of this century.

Consumer confidence indicators have hit nine-year highs in California following Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 presidential inauguration, even though Trump lost the state by staggering margins.

The Conference Board, which measures consumer confidence, reports that consumers in the Golden State are more confident that they have been since 2007, before the Great Recession.

(REUTERS) – British consumer morale rocketed back to pre-Brexit levels in September, a survey found, confounding expectations that the vote to leave the EU would wreak more lasting damage on Briton’s willingness to spend.

Britain’s high streets are heaving with shoppers despite June’s shock vote to leave the European Union, big companies have reported few signs of distress and some tabloid newspapers are even talking about a post-Brexit economic boom.

Shoppers in Britain shrugged off June’s shock Brexit vote as retail sales jumped by much more than expected last month, adding to signs there has been little immediate hit for consumers.

Europe’s refugee crisis is dampening consumer confidence in Germany as shoppers worry about the economic consequences of the huge influx of migrants, a poll found on Wednesday. “The good mood seen among consumers in recent months is slowly waning,” market