The monthly Consumer Confidence Survey, based on a probability-design random sample, is conducted for The Conference Board by Nielsen.
After the ISM business services survey came out, Brian did a quick comparison between it and the consumer confidence survey.
The June Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the preliminary July University of Michigan consumer confidence survey will be published on Friday.
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May retail sales, the preliminary June University of Michigan consumer confidence survey, and April business inventories will be released on Friday.
The final August University of Michigan consumer confidence survey and the first revision to second-quarter GDP will be published on Friday.
The consumer confidence survey is a notoriously unreliable forecasting device.
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development will release their global growth forecast figures on Tuesday, along with U.S. existing home sales and Euro zone consumer confidence survey results.
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Most of the economic data will be published on Friday, when we will see September retail sales, the preliminary October University of Michigan consumer confidence survey, September import and export prices and August business inventories.
For what it is worth, the Cabinet Office's consumer-confidence survey rose in November for the second straight month.
The Consumer Confidence Index, a survey of how optimistic or pessimistic people feel about the economy, has been up and down in 2010, and consumers still feel pessimistic about the job market.
Japan's monthly survey of consumer confidence showed pessimists slightly outnumbering optimists in May.
The latest survey of consumer confidence in America, published on March 25th, showed it to be at the lowest level for nine years.
Still, consumers are more optimistic that the job market is healing and will deliver higher pay later this year, according to a survey of April consumer confidence released this week.
However, the survey also suggested that consumer confidence remained subdued in Scotland, in contrast with the whole of the UK, which saw confidence rise.
On Tuesday, a survey by the Conference Board showed consumer confidence at an eight-month high in December, easily topping expectations.
Consumer confidence, as measured by a Thomson Reuters-University of Michigan Survey, reached 74.2, its highest level in over two years.
Consumer confidence, as measured by the Thomson Reuters-University of Michigan survey, grew at a faster pace than expected, giving retailers encouragement as the holiday retail season carries on.
U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs chain store sales index, the weekly Johnson Redbook retail sales report, the Case-Shiller home price index, the consumer confidence index, new residential home sales and the Richmond Fed business activity survey.
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The leading indicators the OECD uses for the UK include new car registrations, the Confederation of British Industry's business climate survey, a measure of the stocks of finished goods and a measure of consumer confidence, all weighted, added together and compared to an estimation of the trend.
Other U.S. economic reports due for release Thursday are many and include the weekly jobless claims report, the consumer confidence index, revised corporate profits, existing home sales, leading economic indicators, the Philadelphia Fed business survey, the monthly house price index, and foreign central bank holdings.
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