Economics
U.S. Consumer Comfort Climbs Even as Republican Sentiment Slumps
A pedestrian carries a Zara shopping bag in New York.
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A gauge of U.S. consumer sentiment improved for the first time in five weeks, though surprisingly without the help of Republicans, whose confidence slipped to the lowest since May 2018 as impeachment hearings got under way on Capitol Hill.