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Confidence Upside Surprise on Upwardly Revised April

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Confidence Upside Surprise on Upwardly Revised April
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From Conference Board, May reading of 93.1 vs Bloomberg consensus of 91.9, on an upwardly revised April measure of 93.8 (up from prel. 92.8). Here’s the landscape of sentiment and confidence indicators.


Figure 1: U.Michigan Economic Sentiment (blue), Conference Board Confidence Index (brown), Gallup Confidence (green), all demeaned and divided by standard deviation 2021M01-2025m02. Red dashed line at “Liberation Day” Source: U.Michigan, Gallup, Conference Board, and author’s calculations

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