"Consumer confidence, which had rebounded strongly in late spring, has faded in the last two months," Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board Consumer Research Center, said in a statement.

“春季曾强劲反弹的消费者信心前两个月又萎靡不振，”大企业联合会消费者研究中心主任林恩·法兰克在一份声明中说。

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There were 111,693 consumer bankruptcy filings last month, up 9% from January, the American Bankruptcy Institute said Tuesday based on data from the National Bankruptcy Research Center.

美国破产协会周二依据来自美国国家破产研究中心的数据宣布，上个月共有111,693起消费者破产申请，较1月增加9%。

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According to a recent survey by the Consumer Reports National Research Center, 37 percent of respondents admitted that they use their home equipment less frequently than they expected to.

根据美国消费者报告国家调查中心的一项最新的调查显示，37%的被访者承认，他们并没有如他们预期所想地那样频繁使用家庭健身器械。

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heads the group's consumer research center. "Confidence is on the mend.

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"The story here is that CEO confidence is holding steady, " says Lynn Franco, director of the Consumer Research Center at the Conference Board.

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"Perhaps the silver lining to this otherwise dismal report is that Consumer Confidence may be nearing a bottom, " said Lynn Franco, Director of The Conference Board Consumer Research Center.

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Not a meaningful difference, says John Santa, director of Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, a research arm of Consumer Reports magazine.

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