Ultimately, consumer and business confidence are mostly irrational.

As a result, consumer and investor confidence is returning.

But here's consumer confidence over the same time period.

Higher domestic consumer spending would otherwise create inflationary pressures.

Raising rates could alleviate those fears, increasing consumer confidence and spending.

Xi s confidence extends to China s domestic politics.

The expected increase in exports will sustain domestic demand in both countries, and the manageable level of inflation that is predicted may sustain consumer confidence, thereby gradually increasing investment.

Yet consumer confidence, capital expenditure, and hiring have yet to take a sharp hit.

The debt burden destroyed consumer confidence and undermined the banking system, crippling the economy.

Business and consumer confidence are also likely to take a hit, further undermining demand.

Recent reports of declining consumer confidence reinforce the likelihood that spending will slow in the months ahead.

Small wonder, then, that production, sales, and consumer and business confidence are falling throughout the euro zone.

At the same time, while consumer confidence is on the mend, it remains well below pre crisis readings.

Traceability boosted consumer confidence, reduced costs and improved safety and quality from the sea river to the plate.

In fact, because most consumer goods are imported, it is unlikely that domestic companies will benefit at all.

Confidence in domestic economies grows out of the pursuit of appropriate national policy packages.

Indonesia, for example, has experienced accelerating growth, with rising business and consumer confidence boosting investment to almost 33 of GDP.

But what we have seen since 2007 is an overshooting of the contraction in consumer demand and domestic investment.

The confidence required to attract domestic and foreign investment depended largely on that track record.

The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index in the United States, begun in 1967, fell in October to its lowest value ever.

Farther East, Japan is trying a new economic experiment to stop deflation, boost economic growth, and restore business and consumer confidence.

That is a weak growth trajectory by any standard likely to result in rising unemployment and further deterioration in consumer confidence.

The latest Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence Index, which covers 52 countries, fell to 84, from 137 when it was launched in 2005.

We had deflation during the Depression, but that was collapse of the money supply, collapse of consumer confidence, a completely different phenomena.

Total sales of consumer goods increased by 14.8 in 2010 and domestic fixed investment grew by 19.5 , both in real terms.

There, capital inflows create asset bubbles that tend to overheat the domestic economy and drive up wages and consumer prices inordinately.

In the advanced countries, the fall in asset values and, more generally, fear of what comes next has shattered consumer and business confidence.

With housing being such a critical driver of consumer behavior, any further substantial fall in home prices will sap confidence and lower spending.

You put them all together, you mix them up in a bouillabaisse, and you have consumer confidence that's basically a ticking time bomb.

Japan plans to accelerate labor market reforms, strengthen competition, and advance fiscal consolidation to sustain domestic confidence.

In particular, Americans were frightened by Japanese consumer products televisions, which wiped out domestic production, and automobiles, which seemed so malignly efficient.

a Figures for gross domestic product and consumer prices refer to the group of countries included in tables 2 and 5, respectively.

All parties felt that low business confidence was deterring both foreign and domestic investment, and that foreign investors looked to domestic investors for the signal to invest.

In the US, the WES indicator is now below the level of September 11, 2001 and so is the Michigan index of consumer confidence.

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By contrast, the lower dollar makes reduced consumption consistent with full employment by shifting consumer spending from imports to domestic goods and services, and by supplementing this rise in domestic demand with increased exports.

In today s inter connected global economy, uncertainty about the US economic outlook increases one day, and Dutch consumer confidence, for example, takes a tumble the next.

It's a process of the production and reproduction of novelty, continually chasing expanding consumer markets, consumer goods, new consumer goods.

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