North America - Primary Consumer Sentiment Index - March 2018

The Thomson Reuters/Ipsos Monthly Primary Consumer Sentiment Index (PCSI) was released today for the following countries: Canada and the United States.

CANADA

The Canada Primary Consumer Sentiment (“Consumer Confidence”) Index (“PCSI”) as measured by the Thomson Reuters/Ipsos PCSI for March,2018 is down 2.1 percentage points over last month.
The monthly PCSI result is driven by the aggregation of the four, weighted, sub-Indices:  the PCSI Employment Confidence (“Jobs”) Sub- Index which is down 0.2 points; the PCSI Economic Expectations (“Expectations”) Sub-Index which is down 3 points; the PCSI Investment Climate (“Investment”) Sub-Index which is down 3 points; and the PCSI Current Personal Financial Conditions (“Current Conditions”) Sub-Index which is down 1.8 percentage points over last month.

 

US

The US Primary Consumer Sentiment (“Consumer Confidence”) Index (“PCSI”) as measured by the Thomson Reuters/Ipsos PCSI for March,2018 is equal to last month.The monthly PCSI result is driven by the aggregation of the four, weighted, sub-Indices:  the PCSI Employment Confidence (“Jobs”) Sub- Index which is up 0.2 points; the PCSI Economic Expectations (“Expectations”) Sub-Index which is down 2 points; the PCSI Investment Climate (“Investment”) Sub-Index which is up 0.3 points; and the PCSI Current Personal Financial Conditions (“Current Conditions”) Sub-Index which is up 0.6 percentage points over last month.

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