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Consumer Confidence Withstands Boston Bombing

Richard Curtin, Director Surveys of Consumers and Survey Research Center

Richard Curtin. Image courtesy of D.C. Goings

ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–April 26, 2013.  The overall level of consumer confidence declined in April from March, but was identical to last April’s reading, according to University of Michigan economist Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. The Surveys, conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR) since 1946, monitor consumer attitudes and expectations.

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