Storm Clouds on the Horizon? Global Consumer Confidence Waning

• Consumer confidence dips across all regions but is especially sharp in China and other emerging markets.
• Such confidence metrics important leading indicators of household expenditures four to six months out.
• The U.S., however, is holding its own. For the now, the global crisis of consumer confidence has not bled over to American consumers.
• That said, the following months with be essential in understanding the relative degree of US insulation from the global slowdown.

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