Consumer Confidence in U.S. Little Changed as Outlook Cools

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Confidence among U.S. consumers was little changed in April as expectations over the outlook tempered increased optimism about the present.

The Conference Board’s confidence index was at 69.2 com-pared to a revised 69.5 in the prior month, figures from the New York-based private research group showed today. The median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News called for a reading of 69.6.