In April this year, the consumer confidence index tracked by economic tabloid Kontan dipped.
The Ifo business confidence index dropped to 106.7 in March from 107.4 in February.
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Then late Thursday, Standard Chartered bank released their small and mid-sized businesses confidence index survey.
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The Consumer Confidence Index plunged again in August, to just 44.5 from 59.2 in July.
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The last time the home-builder confidence index was above 50 was in April, 2006.
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which had declined in June, improved slightly in July.
Whenever you evaluate retail stocks, one metric that is often mentioned is the Consumer Confidence Index.
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By comparison, last month's confidence index was 94.2, and the lowest reading, in November, was 83.9.
On the economic front, the Conference Board's consumer-confidence index for January fell more than expected.
The Consumer Confidence Index published by the Conference Board registered a 6-point drop in December.
The Conference Board's confidence index did not improve markedly until the first quarter of 1997.
The survey's "confidence index, " including hiring, revenue growth and planned investments, shot to all-time high of 104.
The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index fell sharply to 58.6 in the month, from 66.7 in February.
CNNMoney, Bloomberg, USA Today all report that the Consumer Confidence Index is tumbling, falling, or taking a big hit.
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The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which surged nearly 15 points in November, increased another nine points in December.
Its consumer confidence index fell to 99 in February from 100.6 in January.
Yesterday, the Consumer Confidence Index dipped in response to the notion that a deal would not be forthcoming.
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The Conference Board, a New York-based private research group, said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose to 68.1 in April.
The gold market did move up from its daily lows when a weaker-than-expected U.S. consumer confidence index reading was released Tuesday morning.
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Since the Consumer Confidence Index dropped sharply in June (from 62.7 to 52.9), stocks with higher consumer exposure are not faring well.
The BCM confidence index is 12, up from -9.3 in the last quarter and the highest level since the second quarter of 2011.
The greenback and U.S. stock indexes were supported by stronger U.S. economic data Tuesday that included a five-year high in the consumer confidence index.
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On Tuesday, the New York-based Conference Board announced its Consumer Confidence Index rose to 51.9 in July, from an upwardly revised 51.0 in June.
On Thursday, the Conference Board released its consumer confidence index for December, noting a 6.4 point plunge to 65.1, its lowest level since August.
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The 2011 MerchantCircle Merchant Confidence Index Survey of 8, 500 U.S. small- and medium-sized businesses showed that merchants are using location-based services more for marketing.
Consumers' sentiment soured more than expected in June, darkening for the fourth month in a row, according to the Conference Board's preliminary consumer confidence index.
The University of Michigan's consumer-confidence index was stronger at the end of July than preliminary estimates had indicated, but still much weaker than in June.
While gas is down 25% since the summer, the pump price remains high by recent standards, and the Consumer Confidence Index has wobbled down since spring.
Kearney reported in its semi-annual Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index survey that among Japanese, Malaysia had dropped from the top choice in June to No. 32.
Predictions for the start of 2013 showed little optimism with an economic confidence level for the next three months was 44 on the NACD Board Confidence Index.
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