How to Use consumer confidence in a Sentence

consumer confidence

noun

• The apparel industry’s success hinges on consumer spending, which is closely tied to consumer confidence.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• And consumer confidence may have been shaken by the news of bank runs.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2023
• So, consumer confidence, down a bit from March to April.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 May 2023
• On the macro front: Releases are due on home prices and consumer confidence.
  — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
• Up ahead: Data on U.S. consumer confidence and house prices are due.
  — Will Horner, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023
• And when the selling season winds down in the summer and heading into the fall, Nick said home prices will start to drop and erode consumer confidence.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 2 June 2024
• The Conference Board found this week that consumer confidence rose for the first time in three months, after falling steadily for most of the early part of the year.
  — Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 30 May 2024
• In fact, the Conference Board blamed the recent uptick in gas prices for driving down consumer confidence in August.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
• But that alone won’t offset the impact of lower consumer confidence.
  — Zhiyong Yang, The Conversation, 13 Sep. 2023
• At the same time, a decline in the inflation rate has helped consumer confidence rebound strongly in recent months.
  — Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2024
• And gas prices also play an outsize role in consumer confidence, Zandi said.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• Earlier this week, the Conference Board said that its index of consumer confidence had reached the highest level in two years.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
• These trends could weigh on players such as Netflix who are dependent on strong consumer confidence.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• Graphic by James Powel Is consumer confidence high right now?
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
• Business and consumer confidence and spending would plunge.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
• Gas prices play an outsize role in how Americans view the economy, and consumer confidence, which had been trending up in recent months, turned down in August as prices at the pump rose.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• According to the Conference Board, consumer confidence hit its highest point in two years in July.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 July 2023
• The string of good news includes incomes outpacing inflation since gas prices peaked last June, a boost in consumer confidence and solid job growth in some areas.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2023
• As consumer confidence grows, more people are returning to their normal spending habits, which could boost the overall economy and drive up the stock market.
  — Edward Siedle, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• The standard could help boost consumer confidence in EVs as the White House, the auto industry and other stakeholders strive to encourage mass adoption.
  — Alexa St. John, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
• The spike set off recession alarm bells, worsened inflation and crushed consumer confidence.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
• On Tuesday, the university will publish the results of its consumer confidence survey for May.
  — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 26 May 2024
• That began to change in December when the Conference Board’s consumer confidence index surged nearly 10% in a single month.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
• Inflation is slowing and consumer confidence is rising, but so is credit card debt.
  — Emily Pandise, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2024
• According to the investment bank Nomura, consumer confidence is near an all-time low.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
• Expectations for sales growth for the festival, which is viewed as a gauge of consumer confidence, were subdued this year as the economy struggles to recover.
  — Casey Hall, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2023
• Hiring and investment crest and fall into a contraction as consumer confidence wanes and spending craters.
  — Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Waning labor market optimism combined with a surge in gasoline prices to weigh on consumer confidence this month, erasing the back-to-back increases in June and July.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2023
• That’s weighing on consumer confidence already battered by years of Covid Zero policies.
  — Time, 27 June 2023
• The story so far is of a brighter first half followed by a more challenging second half, … with uncertainty around the impact of the autumn budget statement [expected soon] affecting consumer confidence.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024