Just as important, at a time when fears over China's slowing economy are widespread and there's evidence of retail saturation in the country's major metropolitan areas, nearly half of survey participants said they expect to be better off financially in the next 12 months — and they are eager to spend, contrary to gloomy assumptions about the drag of sluggish economic
growth on consumer sentiment.
Not exact matches
The study concludes that U.S. news releases
on labor market conditions, real GDP
growth, and
consumer sentiment have large effects
on interest rates in both the U.S. Treasury and German sovereign bond markets.
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SEOUL, Dec 31 (Reuters)- South Korea will focus
on bolstering investment by local companies next year to prevent dampened
consumer sentiment from sapping the economy's
growth, the finance minister said
on Tuesday.
«In 2017, we had solid GDP
growth and good news
on employment, wages and
consumer sentiment, which helped deliver very strong retail sales for the auto industry,» he said.
Should investors ignore wavering home sale trends, declining
consumer sentiment, faltering retail developments, floundering total business sales, weakening economic
growth on the domestic front as well as economic stagnation
on the world stage?
«While aggregate income
growth has gradually picked up with a continually improving labor market,
consumers» assessment of their income over the past year has not yet shown sustained improvement, partially weighing
on overall
sentiment.