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Gallup Economic Weekly: Job Creation Improves to 2010 Best

Economic confidence is unchanged, consumer spending declines

February 16, 2010
Gallup’s Job Creation Index improved to its best level of 2010 last week, reaching +3 -- up from 0 the previous week and -2 a month ago. Still, there was no improvement in economic confidence and a decline in self-reported consumer spending.More ...

Gallup Economic Weekly: No Super Bowl Boost

No change in economic confidence, job creation, or consumer spending last week

February 9, 2010
Falling stocks, a lower unemployment rate, winter storms, and even Super Bowl parties seem to have had little impact on American consumers last week, as economic confidence, job market conditions, and consumer spending were essentially unchanged.More ...

Gallup Economic Weekly: Confidence Falls in Late January

Job-market conditions remained anemic while spending bounced back to last year’s new normal

February 2, 2010
Economic confidence continued to languish last week. Job-market conditions remained anemic and self-reported consumer spending improved slightly to match last year’s new normal.More ...

Gallup Economic Weekly: Self-Reported Spending Declines

Consumer spending down last week more than 20% from the prior week and from a year ago

January 26, 2010
American consumers pulled back last week after two encouraging weeks in which self-reported consumer spending exceeded last year’s comparables. Spending fell more than 20% from the prior week and from the same week a year ago.More ...

Gallup Economic Weekly: Job Creation Remains Weak

Economic confidence falls, but consumer spending continues to exceed year-ago comparables

January 19, 2010
Lack of hiring remains a major problem for the U.S. economy as Gallup’s Job Creation Index worsened last week. Economic confidence also declined, but self-reported consumer spending remains encouraging, matching last week and surpassing last year’s comparables.More ...

Gallup Economic Weekly: New Year Brings Spending Boost

Self-reported spending was up 15% from the prior week and 10% from a year ago

January 12, 2010
The economy received some good news last week, as self-reported consumer spending was up 15% from the prior week and 10% from a year ago. Economic confidence continued to be better than it was in December, but job creation remains weak.More ...

Gallup Economic Weekly: Economic Confidence Improving

Americans’ economic confidence improved to its best level in two years last week

January 5, 2010
Main Street joins Wall Street in celebrating the beginning of the new year, with economic confidence matching its high of the past two years. Still, job-market conditions remain weak, and self-reported consumer spending is down from the prior week and from a year ago.More ...

Gallup Economic Weekly: Spending Barely Tops a Year Ago

Self-reported consumer spending was up 3% last week compared with a year ago

December 29, 2009
As 2009 draws to an end, self-reported consumer spending topped last year’s depressed weekly comparables for the first time, increasing 3% year over year. At the same time, economic confidence improved slightly while job-market conditions deteriorated and remain no better than they were at the end of 2008.More ...

Gallup Economic Weekly: Consumers Remain Cautious

Self-reported consumer spending remains down 20% from the same week a year ago

December 22, 2009
As Christmas draws near, consumers are much more optimistic than they were a year ago and job-market conditions are much improved from earlier in 2009. Still, consumers remain cautious, as self-reported consumer spending remains down 20% from last year’s depressed weekly comparables.More ...

Gallup Economic Weekly: Spending Lacks Luster

Last week’s consumer spending was down 22% from the same week a year ago

December 15, 2009
With only one weekend left before Christmas, self-reported consumer spending is down more than 20% in each of the last three weeks from last year’s depressed weekly comparables. Meanwhile, Gallup’s Economic Confidence and Job Creation Indexes show little recent change.More ...
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