retail sales consumer confidence

This survey was done before 'Liberation Day'

  • 3-year inflation unchanged at 3%
  • 5-year inflation down to 2.9% from 3.0%
  • Households more pessimistic about jobs and future earnings
  • Found accelerating food and rent expected
  • Households more downbeat on finances and credit access
  • Share of households seeing worse financial situation highest since Oct 2023
  • Expectations for stocks to rise is at lowest since June 2022
  • Median household spending growth expectations declined by 0.1 percentage point to 4.9%
  • Mean unemployment expectations—or the mean probability that the U.S. unemployment rate will be higher one year from now—jumped 4.6 percentage points to 44.0%, the highest reading since April 2020

There is a clear pattern of worsening sentiment across many indicators but little evidence of it bleeding into hard economic data, though that often takes time.

Source: Forex Live