Biggest drop in consumer confidence since Katrina
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Consumer sentiment took its sharpest plunge in nearly two years during August while home prices swooned in the second quarter, according to reports that show a heavy toll from the housing crisis.
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Consumer confidence deteriorated in  August to its lowest in a year on concerns about a softening  labor market and market turmoil stemming from the subprime  mortgage crisis, a business research group said on Tuesday.
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Consumer confidence deteriorated in August to its lowest level in a year on concerns about a softening labor market and market turmoil stemming from the subprime mortgage crisis.
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Worries about jobs and the economy flared in September, driving a key barometer of consumer sentiment to its lowest level in nearly two years.
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US consumer confidence falls in November, as a slowing housing market adds to worries over the US economy.
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US consumer confidence has hit its lowest level in seven months as Americans react negatively to a combination of surging energy prices and a lacklustre recovery in the nation&#39;s labour market in the final weeks leading to the presidential election.
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US consumer sentiment is at its lowest level in two years on growing concerns about weak business conditions.
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Consumer confidence slid in June amid concern that high gasoline prices and a slumping housing industry might be undermining the job market.
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Battered consumers, faced with weak income growth and rising inflation, trimmed their spending in August by the largest amount in nearly a year. The Commerce Department reported Friday that consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, dropped by 0.1 percent last month, the first decline since a 0.3 percent fall in September 2005, a month when business activity was disrupted by Hurricane Katrina.
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NEW YORK, October 27  - US consumer confidence has declined to a seven-month low this month on persisting job concerns, according to the Conference Board.
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Sharp drop in economic confidence hitting poorest people hardest, Guardian/ICM research reveals
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Worries about the job market has left confidence among US consumers at a nine-month low.
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U.S. consumer sentiment fell more sharply in early October than analysts had expected, according to a survey released on Friday.
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Consumers cut back on their borrowing in August by the largest amount since the end of 1990 as confidence in the economy fell and energy prices surged.
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Consumer confidence fell unexpectedly sharply in September to its lowest in nearly two years on growing concerns about jobs and financial market turmoil, a survey showed on Tuesday.
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A measure of consumer confidence slid  to a nine-month low in August as worries about job growth and  the economy overshadowed a pause by the Federal Reserve in  raising interest rates, a survey showed on Tuesday.
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U.S. consumer confidence fell in May,  weighed down by concerns over rising gasoline prices and  diminished optimism about short-term economic conditions, a  survey showed on Tuesday.