U.S. Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index Rose to 73.8 in January
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final index of U.S. consumer sentiment for January rose to 73.8 from 72.9 at the end of the previous month.
Economists projected 71.5 for the gauge after a preliminary January reading of 71.3, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. Projections of the 62 economists surveyed ranged from 69 to 74.
The index averaged 64.2 during the last recession and 89 in the five years before the 18-month economic slump that ended in June 2009.
In a separate report today, the Labor Department said payrolls rose 157,000 in January.
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U.S. Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index Rose to 73.8
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Pedestrians carry shopping bags on Market Street in San Francisco.
Pedestrians carry shopping bags on Market Street in San Francisco. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Austan Goolsbee, a professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and a former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, talks about the January U.S. employment report released today and President Barack Obama's decision to not renew the charter of an advisory council on jobs. He speaks with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." (Source: Bloomberg)
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