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Consumer Comfort in U.S. Fell Last Week to a Three-Month Low
- Weekly measures of views on economy and personal finances fell
- Partisan gap among voters grew to widest in more than a year
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Consumer comfort declined last week to a three-month low as Americans’ attitudes about the economy and their financial prospects deteriorated.
The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index dropped to 42.8 during the period ended March 26 from 43.6 the prior week. The decline, the biggest since the end of November, marks a departure from a 13-week period in which the gauge see-sawed in tight range from 43.6 to 44.6.