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Uni. of Mich. Consumer Confidence (May)

The fall in consumer confidence in May comes at the end of a week in which we also received weak retail sales and industrial production numbers. But we think that the underlying trend in economic activity is upwards, meaning that it shouldn’t be long before confidence starts to climb again.

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