ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–January 31, 2014. Consumer confidence edged downward in January, although the overall falloff was minor, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.
Conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research since 1946, the surveys monitor consumer attitudes and expectations.
Unfortunately, in the months ahead larger-than-normal home heating bills caused by the frigid weather will strain budgets across the country, with the greatest negative impact on lower income households, according to U-M…
