Survey of Consumer Sentiment
Market Sensitivity: Medium, but can be high at turning points in the economy.
What Is It: Near-real-time assessment of consumer attitudes on the business climate, personal finance, and shopping.
Most Current News Release on the Internet: www.sca.isr.umich.edu/press-release.php
Home Web Address: www.sca.isr.umich.edu/main.php
Release Time: 9:55 a.m. (ET); preliminary numbers are released on the second Friday of each month. Final figures come out the last Friday of the same month. Only the results of the final survey are published on the Web site.
Frequency: Semimonthly.
Source: Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan.
Revisions: Low. Preliminary numbers, out midmonth, are revised two weeks later.
Why Is It Important? ...
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