After March's exuberant surge to the higest level since Jan 2008, serial extrapolators drew their lines and proclaimed that Consumer Confidence would jump further to 83.2 - it didn't. Confidence dropped from a revised 83.9 to 82.3 as Present Situation dropped its most in 15 months.
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Hope (expectations) remains at its highest in 8 months but plans to buy a car dropped to 1 year lows and plans to buy a major appliance dropped to 5 month lows.
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Charts: Bloomberg