April 2018 Consumer Attitudes
Submitted by Atlas Indicators Investment Advisors on May 7th, 2018
Americans continued feeling chuffed in January 2018 according to two popular measures of consumer attitudes. Consumer Confidence from the Conference Board jumped to 125.4 after the upwardly revised tally of 123.1 (originally 122.1). However, there was a small letdown in the Consumer Sentiment figure from the University of Michigan which moved down a touch, falling to 95.7 from 95.9
Consumer attitudes are mixed according to two popular surveys. Per Consumer Confidence numbers from the Conference Board, Americans felt better in July 2017 than a month earlier as it enjoyed a 3.8 point jump from the downwardly revised tally of 117.3 (originally 118.9) to 121.1 in the period. However, the Consumer Sentiment Index produced by the University of Michigan was decidedly