Spinning The Consumer Confidence Number | zero hedge
Remember that horrendous consumer confidence number from about an hour ago? The same one that all those who prevsiouly praised, and said the confidence board could do no wrong, is now being derided as completely irrelevant, manipulated, ...
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Feb Consumer Confidence was awful as it fell 10 pts to 46, the lowest since April '09. Expectations were for a small drop to 55. The Present Situation fell almost 6 pts to the lowest since Feb '83 while Expectations fell by 13.5 pts to ...
U.S. consumer confidence sinks in February Economic Report ...
Consumer confidence falls sharply in February as Americans turn more pessimistic about job prospects and the US economy.
Consumer Confidence Collapses, Missing Expectations Big Time As ...
The Consumer Confidence Survey® is based on a representative sample of 5000 U.S. households. The monthly survey is conducted for The Conference Board by TNS. TNS is the world's largest custom research company. ...
Consumer Confidence Plunges From 56.5 To 46.0, Consensus At 55.0 ...
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index®, which had increased in January, declined sharply in February. The Index now stands at 46.0 (1985=100), down from 56.5 in January. The Present Situation Index decreased to 19.4 from 25.2. ...
CrossingWallStreet.com: Consumer Confidence Plunges
February 23, 2010 Consumer Confidence Plunges. The market is getting smacked around this morning thanks to an awful report on consumer confidence. The Conference Board, a New York-based research group, said its Consumer Confidence Index ...
Consumer Confidence Lowest Since '83 | Sweetness & Light
From a (brace yourself) surprised Associated Press: Consumer confidence falls sharply By Anne D'innocenzio, AP Retail Writer February 23, 2010.
Consumer confidence falls sharply - Spokesman.com - Feb. 23, 2010
Americans' outlook on the economy went into relapse in February. Rising job worries sent a key barometer of confidence to its lowest point in 10 months, raising concerns about the economic recovery.
Market PUKES After The Latest Consumer Confidence Numbers
Slightly down, slightly up, then equities tanked after seeing the latest consumer confidence numbers. Dow: Down 74 points to 10309. NASDAQ: Down 25 points to 2217. S&P 500: Down 10 points to 1098. Oil continues to plunge, ...
How much more money would people have if the top corporations shared their profits?
Is there a service out there that aggregates fundamental macroeconomic data and presents it in time-series format? For example, I'm looking for historical information on GDP, CPI, Capacity Utilization, Trade Deficits, Retail Sales, Non-farm payrolls, etc and also on sentiment indicators like the consumer confidence index or the UMich Sentiment Survey. Aggregating all of this on my own would be a pain. I'd rather pay for an existing solution. Just to be clear, I'm not looking for websites with information. I'm looking for some kind of Excel Add-In or aggregator service that will pull data from a bunch of different websites and put them in the same database.
Is there a service out there that aggregates fundamental macroeconomic data from websites?
... confidence and in return lead to an abatement in economic turmoil?
Do you think that as Obama talks about excessive gov spending that it can lead to a boost in consumer ...?
who took stimulus money.
Would Obama get more consumer confidence if hecut back on politician salaries instead of corporations who took?
1. President Warren G. Harding called for (1 point) a ban on unions. the end of communism. international disarmament. the arrest of all radicals. 2. During the Red Scare, many Americans blamed labor strikes on (1 point) Communists. high rent. the shortage of workers. Republicans. 3. President Harding avoided political alliances with other countries in a desire to follow a policy of (1 point) disarmament. social stability. isolationism. raising tariffs. 4. One characteristic of a consumer economy is that (1 point) people make everything they need. people buy large numbers of products. most people work at home. only the rich can afford modern products. 5. The use of the assembly lines to manufacture automobiles allowed Henry Ford to (1 point) sell cars at higher prices. produce cars without factory workers. sell cars at prices ordinary Americans could afford. gain a monopoly in the automobile industry. 6. Many farmers struggled to survive in the 1920s because (1 point) they had no work. farm prices plummeted. most were tenant farmers. they borrowed money. 7. Hoover did little to discourage the wild buying of stocks with borrowed money because he had high confidence in the (1 point) business world. intelligence of the American investor. strength of labor unions. farm economy. 8. To meet workers' demands and keep out unions, many companies (1 point) fired employees. hired women and children. initiated welfare capitalism. closed their businesses. 9. One major danger sign that the American economy was in trouble in the 1920s was (1 point) the increase of personal debt. the demand for more jobs. the growth of industry. a rise in immigration. 10. Rising prices on the stock market encouraged people to take risks by (1 point) selling stocks. increasing savings. putting money in banks. buying on margin.
Can I get some help on my history?
are you finding times hard? what do you do to get more business? do you find it pointless in ringing around people because of lack of consumer confidence and available spending. Please share your views.
in small business, advice please?
According to John Maynard Keynes (Creator of Keynesian Economics), the money in the stimulus should have been spent right away, on businesses and the consumer. The stimulus itself, should have been for the consumer. That means you and i would have gotten checks of $2833.33 dollars, from the $850 Billion dollar stimulus. Did that happen? NO. ($850 Billion divided by 300 million Americans = $2833.33) Did he spend the money right away, like Keynes suggested? NO. Was the money spent on the consumer? NO. Was the money spent on businesses? NO. Did the stimulus buy goods from businesses to increase demand and employment? NO. http://readthestimulus.org/hr1_text.pdf The Stimulus Package 2009 (PDF) http://www.readthestimulus.org/ Read the stimulus.org Stimulus FACTS This is no real "stimulus". It is a sham, it isn't working liberals... GDP Growth? Stock Market? GDP is up mainly because of government spending. GDP calculates government spending - this is Econ 101 libbies. Stock Market? The corporations you hate are doing well with the bailout money - too bad they lost almost everything they gained last week. Unemployment is still climbing, production is down, the federal deficit has increased by 217% (from $454.8 Billion to $1.45 Trillion.), monetary growth is out of control, Obama wants to lower interest rates (which helped cause the recession), and consumer confidence is down. Inflation is coming and i bet you a tax hike is also coming. How are things getting better?lol, John how has the stimulus worked? I'm using Keynesian, liberal rhetoric to defeat the stimulus.
Why do liberals believe the "stimulus" "worked"? (Read the long question)?
Specifically making a commitment to withdraw all combat troops within a year and also making a commitment to new off shore drilling, electric, solar , nuclear power as a long-term strategy. Will this make Americans feel stronger and lift us from this recession ?
Will ending the war in Iraq and revamping our energy policy drive up consumer confidence ?
How you call the one below ? ''Place a CTN trust seal in strategic places on your site to increase consumer confidence' website: http://www.mywot.com/ It's a different catergory then clocks, social widgets, news tickers etc. Should I add this to my webindex as 'add-on' ? If this this question is totally unclear, I wanna add Mywod.com to http://24hr.nl/ but not sure in which category, or should I create a new category and how to name this. Thankxx
Whats the difference between a 'website gadget', 'widget' and 'add-on'?
The credit card commercial says, "We're a nation of consumers!" and like any good American, I always believe everything I hear on my television, so when the automobile commercial says, "We're all in this together!" my initial reaction is, "No, we're not! Haven't you heard? We're a nation of consumers! We're all in this for superficial immediate self-gratification through conspicuous consumption and unless we coincidentally just happen to do it in the same place at the same time, we're otherwise most certainly not in anything 'together'. We're in this for disproportionate benefit from the misfortune of others. We're in this for ourselves and we're utterly alone." but like any good American, I always believe everything I hear on my television so these contradictory messages have me quite confused. Which is it? Are we "a nation of consumers" or are we "all in this together"? If later today, you trip and fall down on the sidewalk in front of me, should I help you up or should I rifle through your purse while you're preoccupied with your injuries? I just want to be a good American and have confidence that I am following the instructions of my television correctly. Thank you in advance for your helpful and informative responses.
"All in this together" or "a nation of consumers"?
I was reading an article about consumer spending through the previous holiday season. They refer to people opening their wallets up more. Why does societal confidence have to be connected with spending?
