Consumer Comfort Steadies After Four-Week Fall: Economy
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Confidence among American consumers stabilized last week after four straight declines even as their views of the economy deteriorated.
The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index rose to minus 32.1 in the week ended Sept. 8 from minus 32.3. The drop was within the survey’s margin of error of 3 percentage points. A measure of households’ assessment of the economy fell to the lowest level since mid-May.