Consumer sentiment rebounds
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Conference Board’s latest consumer confidence index notched its highest monthly increase in four years. To be clear, it was coming off a five-year low in April, but the jump still represents cooling trade war anxieties among American consumers. Also in this episode: The U.S. isn’t the only country experiencing rising bond yields, durable goods orders fell in April and first-time home owners in Houston are saddled with climate-related cost burdens.
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| 1:26.9 | On the program today, we'll do some data. |
| 1:30.2 | We'll do the bond market. |
| 1:31.8 | Sorry. |
| 1:33.1 | But then we'll have a beer from American public media. |
| 1:36.9 | This is Marketplace. |
| 1:42.7 | In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdahl. |
| 1:49.1 | It is the 27th of May today. |
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