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consumer confidence stories: 54 news summaries

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MARKETS

 Dow Falls 34 
 Ahead of Jobs Data 

Dow still on track for best quarter in 10 years

Sep 29, 09 3:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks fell today as traders lost some of yesterday’s confidence ahead of looming job reports. ADP will release its September survey tomorrow, with weekly data due Thursday and the government’s nonfarm payrolls report coming Friday. The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index, which analysts had been expecting to... More »

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Dow Jones • consumer confidence • employment • unemployment • Nasdaq • Conference Board • S&P 500 • consumer confidence index

 Dow Drops 36 
 as Consumer Data Saps Stocks 

Intel, Dell see gains

Aug 28, 09 3:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks mostly fell today despite good news from the tech sector, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Reuters/University of Michigan index of consumer confidence fell in August, dragging the markets down. Intel rose 4.32% after raising its third-quarter profit forecast, while Dell gained 1.89% on second-quarter earnings that... More »

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Dell • Intel • Dow Jones • consumer confidence • Nasdaq • S&P 500 • consumer confidence index

MARKETS

 Dow Up 30 After Rosy Data 


Aug 25, 09 3:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks closed with modest advances on strong economic data and a drop in oil prices, the Wall Street Journal reports. Advances in second-quarter home prices and a boost in July consumer confidence propelled stock indices to new 2009 highs shortly after the open, but oil’s $2.32 drop moderated... More »

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Dow Jones • consumer confidence • Nasdaq • home prices • S&P 500 • consumer confidence index • oil prices

MARKETS

 Dow Up 3 as Stocks 
 Stall Ahead of Reports 

Investors await consumer confidence, housing, GDP data

Aug 24, 09 3:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks closed near to opening levels today, with the Dow just barely extending its winning streak into a fifth session, the Wall Street Journal reports. All the indices hit new highs for 2009 early, boosted by housing data, investors pulled back ahead of looming reports on consumer confidence, new home... More »

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Dow Jones • home sales • consumer confidence • Nasdaq • GDP • new home sales • S&P 500

Web Apps
Keep Tabs on National Mood

They troll mountains of online data seeking economic indicators

Aug 18, 09 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Web-based tools have become increasingly adept at measuring a critical economic indicator: the nation’s mood. Whereas old indicators were based on surveys, these applications sift through mountains of online data, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. TweetFeel, for example, looks for select words and emoticons on Twitter. Other systems do... More »

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Google • Internet • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • consumer confidence • emotion • Twitter • Jay-ZTV • collective emotion • Google Trends • Google Insights for Search • flu season • TweetFeel • Emotionr.com

MARKETS

 Dow Off 77 on Consumer Data 


Aug 14, 09 3:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks dipped today on worse-than-expected information about consumer sentiment, the Wall Street Journal reports. A Reuters index dropped 3 points instead of the anticipated 2-point rise. A downward spiral has been evident since the Fed announced it would not raise interest rates Wednesday. “A day like today has... More »

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stock market • NASDAQ • New York Stock Exchange • Federal Reserve • Dow Jones • consumer confidence • S&P 500 • interest rates

MARKETS

 Confidence Sags; Dow Off 82 

But all indices see gains in second quarter

Jun 30, 09 3:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks fell today on an unexpected decline in consumer confidence, the Wall Street Journal reports, after investors held steady at the open despite data that delinquencies on prime mortgages had increased. The consumer-confidence drop came after two months of positive readings. The Dow closed down 82.38 at 8,447.... More »

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Dow Jones • consumer confidence • Nasdaq • S&P 500 • consumer confidence index • mortgage delinquency

MARKETS

 Dow Up 196 on Confidence Data 


May 26, 09 3:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - A positive report on consumer confidence gave stocks a boost today, despite poor numbers from the housing sector, the Wall Street Journal reports; financials and construction-related stocks jumped as much as 5%. Home prices, however, were down 19.1% from the first quarter of 2008. The Dow gained 196.17... More »

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NASDAQ • New York Stock Exchange • housing market • Dow Jones • consumer confidence • S&P 500

'Tentative' Signs Point to Healing US Economy 

But changes on paper may take time to hit pockets

Mar 28, 09 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Next month, the US recession is set to become the longest since the Great Depression, but the Wall Street Journal, in the first up-beat prediction in months, musters “tentative” signs that things could be turning around. Consumer spending and sentiment rose in February, the housing market is looking more... More »

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housing market • consumer confidence • recession • recovery • consumer spending

Consumer Confidence
Hits New Low

Index plummets to 25, compared to 76.4 a year ago

Feb 24, 09 10:16 AM CST
(AP) - Americans' already-battered confidence in the economy went into freefall this month, reaching new lows as consumers grow more fearful over huge job cuts and shrinking retirement accounts. New York's Conference Board said its Consumer Confidence Index, which was down slightly in January, plummeted more than 12 points in February to... More »

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consumer confidence • retirement fund • job cuts • consumer confidence index • economy

US Consumer Spending Falls Yet Again

1% drop greater than forecast; 6 straight months of decline

Feb 2, 09 9:06 AM CST
(Newser) - Consumer spending fell in December to finish off its worst year since 1961, Bloomberg reports. Purchases fell 1%, topping analyst estimates of a 0.9% decline. It was the record sixth consecutive month spending has fallen, and that streak may get longer, one economist predicted. Thanks to nearly 2.6... More »

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economic indicators • consumer confidence • unemployment • consumer spending • economy • financial crisis

Consumer Confidence Finds a New Low in January

Conference Board's index at half its year-ago value

Jan 27, 09 10:43 AM CST
(AP) - Americans' mood about the economy darkened even more in January, sending a widely watched barometer of consumer sentiment to yet another new low as people worry about their jobs and watch their retirement funds dwindle. The Conference Board said its Consumer Confidence Index edged down to 37.7 from a... More »

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United States • consumer confidence • recession • Conference Board • consumer confidence index • economy • credit market chaos • financial crisis

 Drivers Learning 
 to Love Older Cars 

Maintenance cheaper than payment for newer models, consumers find

Jan 14, 09 11:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Thanks to the ongoing recession, drivers accustomed to trading in their vehicles often are warming to the idea of a longer covenant with their cars, the Wall Street Journal reports. While the concept might puzzle the less well-heeled, “the 3-year ownership mentality has crumbled,” one insider said. And... More »

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consumer confidence • recession • auto industry • used cars • financial crisis • economic downturn • frugality

MARKETS

 Dow Rises 184 on GMAC News 

Dow rises 184 despite drops in home prices, consumer confidence

Dec 30, 08 3:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Stocks rose today as investors were encouraged by the extension of at least $5 billion in bailout money to the financing division of General Motors, MarketWatch reports. GMAC said the aid would allow it to offer loans to more US consumers seeking to buy vehicles. The Dow gained 184.46... More »

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Dow Jones • General Motors • consumer confidence • Nasdaq • home prices • S&P 500 • consumer confidence index • GMAC

 Consumer Confidence 
 Hits All-Time Low 

Economists expected a rise this month after dreary November

Dec 30, 08 10:53 AM CST
(AP) - US consumer confidence hit an all-time low this month, dropping unexpectedly in the face of layoffs and deteriorating investment markets. The Consumer Confidence Index, expected to rise incrementally to 45, fell to 38 in December from a revised 44.7 last month. The Present Situation index, which measures how respondents... More »

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United States • consumer confidence • recession • unemployment • weakening economy

Poll: 72% of World Cutting Spending

Economic malaise spreads to emerging markets, hits hard

Dec 23, 08 9:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Nearly three-quarters of households worldwide are cutting spending, with emerging markets particularly fretful about global economic woes, a 22-country survey found. Those countries are facing “precipitous decline," putting “in check any notion of 'decoupling’”—the idea that emerging markets are working independently of those of... More »

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world economy • consumer confidence • consumer spending • emerging markets • developed countries • financial crisis

MARKETS

 Slim Gain Is Dow's 3rd in Row 

New consumer credit plan inspires confidence on the street

Nov 25, 08 3:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Stocks were mixed today, as enthusiasm over the Fed’s plan to get banks lending was tempered by a downward revision to third-quarter GDP and a drop in a home-price index, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Dow rose 36.47—its third consecutive up session—to 8,479.86.... More »

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Dow Jones • consumer confidence • Nasdaq • gas prices • credit crisis • S&P 500 • JPMorgan Chase • consumer credit • financial crisis

 Ways to Cut 
 Your Bills 
 Down to Size 

Usual belt-tightening suspects abound: Eat at home, cut out luxuries, get a second job

Nov 18, 08 7:41 PM CST
(Newser) - Spendthrift Americans from all rungs of the income ladder are taking a page from Scrooge these days, adopting new, cash-lite strategies to get through hard times, USA Today notes. They're managing to save by:
  • Hocking whatever's collecting dust in their closets: The average household has $3,200 worth
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consumer confidence • credit card • savings • coupons • financial crisis

GLOSSIES

Seeking Xanadu, Shopping Malls Find Purgatory Instead

Waning consumerism, economic downturn take toll on uniquely American institution

Nov 14, 08 4:28 PM CST
(Newser) - An American institution—the shopping mall—is slouching toward extinction, Newsweek reports. With a record number of retail outlets, including ubiquitous Gap and Foot Locker, planning closures, roughly 20% of the 2,000 largest malls are failing, says one professor, leaving the fate of developing mega-malls like New Jersey’s... More »

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retail • consumer confidence • mall • retail shopping • financial crisis

To Avoid Recession, Cheer Up: Aussie Pol

Finance minister pushes power of the positive

Nov 12, 08 3:31 PM CST
(Newser) - Australia's finance minister apparently didn't see what happened to Phil Gramm  last summer when he declared that the US economic slowdown was "mental" and called Americans a "nation of whiners."  The recession would disappear, said Ken Henry, if Australians would  just buck up, Australia’s News... More »

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Australia • economic growth • consumer confidence • unemployment • Kevin Rudd • job creation • Treasury secretary • financial crisis • Ken Henry

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