Bloomberg Survey of U.S. Economic Expectations
The Bloomberg consumer survey of U.S. economic expectations fell this month.
Consumers were asked ‘Do you think the nation’s economy is getting better, getting worse or staying the same?’
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Better-Worse -45.0 -34.0 -34.0 -22.0 -31.0 -16.0
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Getting Better 7 12 15 17 16 20
Getting Worse 52 46 49 39 47 36
Staying the same 40 41 34 43 36 43
No opinion 1 1 2 1 2 1
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NOTE: Economic expectations are tracked in the ongoing Bloomberg Consumer Comfort survey via random-sample telephone interviews with 500 Americans in the first two weeks of each month. The survey is produced by Langer Research Associates of New York, with field work by SSRS/Social Science Research Solutions of Media., Pa. Results to this question have a 4.5-point margin of sampling error.
SOURCE: Bloomberg News
To contact the reporter on this story: Alex Tanzi in Washington at atanzi@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Marco Babic at mbabic@bloomberg.net
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