Consumer confidence improved in the world's largest economy

In April, the value of Conference Board's consumer confidence index increased to 65.4 points from 63.8 points, which is a slight positive surprise, because the analysts' consensus was 64.4 points.

According to the results of the survey of Conference Board; Consumers were slightly more optimistic in April than a month earlier. Lynn Franco, research director of the Institute finds that “the short-term prospects of the consumers have improved slightly” since March – reports portfolio.hu.