Confidence in U.S. Banks Climbs to 5-Year High: Gallup
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Americans are more confident in U.S. banks than they’ve been in five years as an improving economy helps lenders boost profit and repair their balance sheets, a new Gallup poll found.
People who said they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in U.S. lenders climbed to 26 percent of respondents from a record low of 21 percent a year ago, according to a statement on Gallup’s website today. That’s still below the 41 percent recorded in 2007 before the credit crisis and 32 percent in 2008 as the financial system began to falter.