Consumer Confidence stories:
DR Horton 4Q Loss Narrows On 2008 Write-Downs
Nov 20th, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
Home builder D.R. Horton Inc.'s (DHI) fiscal fourth-quarter loss narrowed sharply amid huge year-earlier write-downs as results were weaker than expected. But while orders at the No...
UK Retail Sales Rise for Second Month on Clothing
Nov 19th, 2009 - Bloomberg
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. retail sales rose in Octoberfor a second month, driven by clothing as consumer spendingpicked up after the longest recession on record. Sales increased 0.4 percent on the month...
Upbeat earnings data push stocks back up
Nov 14th, 2009 - Dispatch
NEW YORK (AP) -- Encouraging earnings news from major retailers and the Walt Disney Co. drew investors back into the stock market one day after a big drop. Upbeat quarterly reports from Disney, as well as Abercrombie & Fitch Co...
Retail earnings news gives stocks a boost
Nov 14th, 2009 - Philly
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 73 points yesterday after dropping 94 on Thursday. Upbeat quarterly reports from Disney as well as from Abercrombie & Fitch Co...
Dow, up 73. . . S&P, up 6 . . . NASDAQ, up 19
Nov 13th, 2009 - cleveland
Associated PressRick Dreiling, left, Chairman and CEO of Dollar General accompanied by company's executives looks at the monitor as the stock lists for trading at the New York Stock Exchange and starts trading under the symbol DG Friday...
Consumer Confidence videos from YouTube:
0:14At 10.2% Unemployment, Geithner "Economy, Consumer Confidence, Financial System are Stronger Now"
Despite 10.2 % unemployment and 12 trillion in US debt, Treasury Secretary Geithner states to the Joint Economic Committee " IF YOU LOOK AT ANY MEASURE OF CONSUMER AND INVESTOR CONFIDENCE TODAY ...
1:02Sept. 29: Consumer Confidence Weighs on Stocks
A surprise drop in consumer confidence tripped up investors, a day after two corporate takeovers set off a steep market rally.(Sept. 29)
5:57Consumer Confidence
Consumer Confidence Report (May 26, 2009) trade-technicals.blogspot.com CNBC Article on consumer confidence http Understanding Consumer Confidence www.investopedia.com
4:5570. How To Interpret the Consumer Confidence Index (CCI)
A lesson on the Consumer Confidence Index and what it means to traders and investors in the stock, futures, and foreign exchange markets.
Consumer Confidence from WikiPedia:
Consumer confidence is the degree of optimism that consumers feel about the overall state of the economy and their personal financial situation. How confident people feel about stability of their incomes determines their spending activity and therefore serves as one of the key indicators for the overall shape of the economy. In essence, if consumer confidence is higher, consumers are making more purchases, boosting the economic expansion. On the other hand, if confidence is lower, consumers tend to save more than they spend, prompting the contraction of the economy. A month-to-month diminishing trend in consumer confidence suggests that in the current state of the economy most consumers have a negative outlook on their ability to find and retain good jobs. John Maynard Keynes described consumer confidence with the term animal spirits, meant to indicate the not-fully-rational decision-making of consumers.
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