Saturday, February 4, 2012

Consumer confidence up dramatically - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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in April. The index is basedr on a representative sampleof 5,000 U.S. “Looking ahead, consumers are considerably less pessimistic than they were earlier this year, and expectations are that business the labor market and incomes will improvde in the coming months,” said Lynn director of the . “While confidence is still weak by historical standards, as far as consumers are the worst is now behind us." Consumers' appraisal of the job market was also more Those claiming jobs are "hard to get" decreased to 44.7 percent from 46.6 percentf in April. Those saying jobs are edged upto 5.7 percenrt from 4.9 percent.
The employment outlook was also less with the percentage of consumers expecting more jobs in the monthsw ahead increasing to 20 percentfrom 14.2 while those anticipating fewer jobs decreased to 25.2 percent from 32.5

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