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Poll: Consumer confidence surges (AP< 8/06/04)

Americans are apparently feeling better about their pocketbooks.
And they're optimistic about the future, despite the rising price of oil and the renewed terror threat.

The Associated Press-Ipsos consumer confidence index jumped 12 points from July to August. It finds Americans considerably more upbeat about the economy than a year ago. Much of the improvement came during the past month. [...]

The consumer confidence index is based on questions about economic attitudes in a poll of one-thousand-seven adults taken August second through the fourth. The margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.

Why wouldn't they be?

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 6, 2004 5:27 PM