Sentences with phrase «of consumer confidence»

The gain was the highest level of consumer confidence in five years.

Mixed results from measures of consumer confidence during the final month of 2013 should not be a surprise.

In contrast, while surveys of consumer confidence generally remained close to recent highs, these sentiment indicators were somewhat at odds with underlying levels of economic activity.

The biggest factor holding the housing market back is lack of consumer confidence.

Where does your market stand in terms of consumer confidence?

The data indicate that both of the underlying components of consumer confidence rose sharply soon after reaching this low.

For example, separate readings of consumer confidence indicated differing findings.

The kind of consumer confidence boosts he showed us may, of course, not quite reflect reality.

I prefer the concept of consumer confidence on a more micro level.

That may be true, but the erosion of consumer confidence is real.

Accordingly, measures of consumer confidence were mixed in the first month of 2013.

The «Indie Games Winter Uprising» was a community effort to combat the loss of consumer confidence in XBLIG, similar to the Xona Proposal but something the developers could implement on their own without Microsoft support.

It also represents a much - needed boost given the release of the consumer confidence index for August, which shows a drop of 4.8 points.»

«Email phishing defrauds millions of people and companies every year, resulting in a loss of consumer confidence in email and the Internet as a whole,» said Brett McDowell in a press release.

Meanwhile, the Conference Board reported that its measure of consumer confidence declined by 12.1 percent to 58.6.

Analysts and investors rely on monthly U.S. vehicle sales to track the performance of individual automakers, and also use the data as a barometer of the health of the world's second - largest auto market and an indicator of consumer confidence in the U.S. economy overall.

In the weeks before the release of the Consumer Confidence Index, a number of pundits — including Nobel prize - winning economist Paul Krugman and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner — were heralding an impending economic recovery.

While the stock market saw a marked positive response to the results of the Consumer Confidence Index, if I were a retailer, I would be hesitant to go out on a limb and base any major business decisions on economic guesswork by the average Joe.

Import spending is a decent barometer of consumer confidence, so a sudden drop in imports could reflect a decline in consumer sentiment.

Consumer confidence among Western Australian shoppers has only marginally improved in the last quarter, a Curtin Business School Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA survey of consumer confidence says.

• Canada: The Conference Board of Canada's Index of Consumer Confidence shows that Canadians, too, are perturbed.

The University of Michigan Confidence Index is a survey of consumer confidence conducted by the University of Michigan.

It's like Litecoin in many ways perhaps most in the sense of it being reasonably priced and having a lot of consumer confidence.

According to GfK's Consumer Confidence Index, all five measures of consumer confidence increased in March compared to February.

Aside from the offsetting impact of Trump's tax and tariff policies, the best simple summary of the current state of consumer confidence is that the economy is «as good as it gets.»

We would concur with this broadly positive outlook for the economy over the rest of the year, in large part due to the contribution from US consumers, whose well - being — thanks mainly to a robust labor market — was apparent in one measure of consumer confidence during September, which hit its highest level in nine years.

Your message reads as if you were afraid somebody will have some fun or make some money, and this when the nation is coming out of a recession and anybody with any sense is cheered by the signs of consumer confidence!

Almost as soon as they had said that America never again would be the same, they began to talk about the restoration of the familiar and heroic past, making good the losses of September 11 with quicker witted intelligence agents, heavier artillery, more patriotic displays of consumer confidence in all the nation's better stores....

The coalition government have contributed to the demolition of any consumer confidence and they are now in a situation where they can neither find a way off the downward spiral or find a mechanism to kick start the ailing economy.

In a webcast this week from in London Book Fair's #Quantum16 Virtual Conference, Nielsen's Andre Breedt started his survey of key markets with a check of consumer confidence.

Recent reports of increased credit card usage among consumers seem to suggest a revival of consumer confidence, if not carelessness.

To instill a false sense of consumer confidence, Petland characterizes its «Approved Suppliers» as «USDA Approved» or as a USDA «licensed breeder,» but this does not alter the fact that these breeders are indeed puppy mills.

The rise in travellers follows the launch of Jordan's adventure offering through the introduction of the Jordan Trail and the resurgence of consumer confidence in the country.

I've already written an article on the mess that was the Red Ash Kickstarter and Keiji Inafune's seeming inability to understand the basic principles of consumer confidence and trust.

Not once did we create a low - quality massage app, zombie game, avatar game, Minecraft clone, holiday game, or any sellout effort that contributed to the continually drain of consumer confidence in XBLIG.

With the risk of heavy fines under the GDPR, not to mention the reputational damage and potential loss of consumer confidence caused by non-compliance, nothing should be left to chance.

The Index of Consumer Confidence stumbled for the third consecutive month in December, falling 3.3 points to 67.7 (2002 = 100), the Conference Board reported today.

We witness high levels of consumer confidence along with business prosperity.

No matter what the real state of the housing market is, the bottom line is that consumer confidence remains at an all - time low, and without a restoration of consumer confidence, the real estate market will continue to flounder.

«This was a weak report, and if its assessment of consumer confidence is correct, it could be pointing to a sour tone for personal spending going forward,» wrote Millan Mulraine, economics strategist with TD Securities, in a research note.

Thomson Reuters and the University of Michigan reported that its final estimate of consumer confidence, Consumer Sentiment, rose by 1.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted monthly basis in January to 73.8.

As housing seeks stability, moderating rates of consumer confidence and price gains foreshadow a third potential dip.

(MCT)-- Americans continued to shake off fears of the looming fiscal cliff, with a gauge of consumer confidence rising slightly this month to its highest level since early 2008.

Nevertheless, despite these and other unknowns, market sentiment has generally been positive, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing in on a record - achieving 20,000 watershed mark, measures of consumer confidence clocking in near 13 - year highs, and strong hiring practices being recorded.

Unfortunately, none of these polls show a great deal of consumer confidence which is a key to any economic upturn.

«Conditions have been aligning very favourably for homebuyers, with the exception of consumer confidence,» NAR's chief economist, Lawrence Yun, stated when the January figures were released.

«Either too slow growth or too high expectations represent barriers to maintaining high levels of consumer confidence.»

The authors concluded that the contamination and substitution dilute the effectiveness of otherwise useful remedies, lowering the perceived value of all related products because of a lack of consumer confidence in them.