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23.12.2021

U.S. consumer sentiment slightly better than initially estimated in December

The final reading for the December Reuters/Michigan index of consumer sentiment came in at 70.6 compared to the flash reading of 70.4 and the November final reading of 67.4. This represented the first increase in three months.

Economists had forecast the index to stay unrevised at 70.4.

The latest Surveys of Consumers of the University of Michigan also revealed that the index of consumer expectations climbed 7.6 percent m-o-m to 68.3 this month, while the index of the current economic conditions rose 0.8 percent m-o-m to 74.2.

Commenting on the December results, Richard Curtin, Surveys of Consumers chief economist, noted that the improvement in consumer sentiment was mainly due to higher income expectations among households with incomes in the bottom third of the distribution. At the same time, consumers' assessments of their current finances were unchanged at lower levels on the back of rising inflation.

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