{"id":272871,"date":"2025-03-25T18:36:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/conference-board-us-consumer-confidence-tumbled-again-in-march\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:09:04","slug":"conference-board-us-consumer-confidence-tumbled-again-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/conference-board-us-consumer-confidence-tumbled-again-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Board: \u201cUS Consumer Confidence tumbled again in March\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-56119\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conference-board.org\/topics\/consumer-confidence\">Conference Board<\/a> confidence index at 92.9 vs. 94.2 consensus. Here\u2019s confidence vs. U.Mich sentiment (all standardized).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sent_conf_stdized1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56120\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sent_conf_stdized1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"835\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sent_conf_stdized1.png 835w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sent_conf_stdized1-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sent_conf_stdized1-768x516.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/sent_conf_stdized1-624x419.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Figure 1:<\/strong>\u00a0U.Michigan Economic Sentiment (blue), Conference Board Confidence Index (blue), Gallup Confidence (green), all demeaned and divided by standard deviation 2021M01-2025m02. Source: UMichigan, Gallup,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conference-board.org\/topics\/consumer-confidence\">Conference Board<\/a>, and author\u2019s calculations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the expectations vs. current situation picture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/expect_confbd_mar25.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56121\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/expect_confbd_mar25.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/expect_confbd_mar25.png 1200w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/expect_confbd_mar25-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/expect_confbd_mar25-1024x623.png 1024w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/expect_confbd_mar25-768x467.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/expect_confbd_mar25-624x380.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/familyexpected_mar25.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56122\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/familyexpected_mar25.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/familyexpected_mar25.png 1200w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/familyexpected_mar25-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/familyexpected_mar25-1024x509.png 1024w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/familyexpected_mar25-768x381.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/familyexpected_mar25-624x310.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/03\/conference-board-us-consumer-confidence-tumbled-again-in-march\" title=\"9:55 am\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-03-25T09:55:23-07:00\">March 25, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/03\/conference-board-us-consumer-confidence-tumbled-again-in-march\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Conference Board confidence index at 92.9 vs. 94.2 consensus. Here\u2019s confidence vs. U.Mich sentiment (all standardized). Figure 1:\u00a0U.Michigan Economic Sentiment (blue), Conference Board Confidence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}