{"id":33924,"date":"2020-06-27T14:01:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vailvalleypartnership.com\/?p=33924"},"modified":"2020-06-27T14:01:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:01:59","slug":"consumer-sentiment-and-spending-are-going-in-the-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vailvalleypartnership.com\/2020\/06\/consumer-sentiment-and-spending-are-going-in-the-right-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Sentiment and Spending are Going in the Right Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table id=\"ChamberInActionStory_1\" class=\"text-align-center\" role=\"presentation\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"600\"><center><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td class=\"spacer-v-5\" width=\"600\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td width=\"600\">\n<div id=\"ChamberActionDescription_1\" class=\"mktoText blue-links p-margins\" align=\"left\">\n<p>For a few weeks, the economic data was showing an economy that had bottomed out and was recovering at an encouraging pace. The hope was that the recovery would continue at that speed. The data is still showing we are better off than we were a month ago, but that the recovery is uneven and perhaps not as fast as hoped. For instance, data out today on consumer sentiment and consumer spending show some improvement, but incomes fell.<\/p>\n<p>The final reading of the <a class=\"mktNoTok\" title=\"https:\/\/url.emailprotection.link\/?bgAO9amVjVLbpPyvwQvloGlMLGgLXVmlQyX0fJv9kJXwCb6PzCnEU7l1aBBabsRpmKsw8ddEANSb_lkHVjXp-oNGlLe73_7OIr7V2uU7mSNkZDTvbsHz4IB4-B7ph4tBj\" href=\"https:\/\/url.emailprotection.link\/?bgAO9amVjVLbpPyvwQvloGlMLGgLXVmlQyX0fJv9kJXwCb6PzCnEU7l1aBBabsRpmKsw8ddEANSb_lkHVjXp-oNGlLe73_7OIr7V2uU7mSNkZDTvbsHz4IB4-B7ph4tBj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Michigan survey of consumer sentiment<\/a> for June recorded an 8% bounce from May. This is good news, but consumers are still significantly less confident than they were back in February.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/page.uschamber.com\/rs\/462-UWH-935\/images\/2020-6-26-CDB-Curtis1.png\" alt=\"Chart: Consumer Sentiment vs Future Expectations\" width=\"540\" border=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"mktNoTok\" href=\"https:\/\/url.emailprotection.link\/?bvybwRpsClaC-jujWLhBkpXmHYRlkQlU81M9eB24wiFRjEvvqZEMzRnqWdVGp3qOyHVYoRmq-lWPE4Y9jFr5zvcN8w8UUfe5UB5eI_8KDlL6mnr5uTHc_RsN0ZsH0eFNa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bureau of Economic Analysis<\/a> reported income and spending for May. Incomes fell 4.2%, but that was after a large 10.8% increase in April. A pullback was expected after the big jump in April, which was driven by increased unemployment benefits and pandemic relief payments to families.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, spending jumped 8.2% for the month after falling 12.6% in April. Despite that large increase, consumption is still well below where it was just in February.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/page.uschamber.com\/rs\/462-UWH-935\/images\/2020-6-26-CDB-Curtis2.png\" alt=\"Chart: Consumption Rebounded in May, But is Still Down\" width=\"541\" border=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are not going to go right back to where we were in the early part of this year. We will get back there eventually, but even if we do get that \u201cV-shaped\u201d recovery we all want, meaning we get back to normal at the fastest possible pace, there will still be bumps in the road and conflicting data on the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Curtis Dubay, Senior Economist, U.S. Chamber of Commerce<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For a few weeks, the economic data was showing an economy that had bottomed out and was recovering at&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vailvalleypartnership.com\/2020\/06\/consumer-sentiment-and-spending-are-going-in-the-right-direction\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Consumer Sentiment and Spending are Going in the Right Direction | Vail Valley Partnership<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vailvalleypartnership.com\/2020\/06\/consumer-sentiment-and-spending-are-going-in-the-right-direction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Consumer Sentiment and Spending are Going in the Right Direction | Vail Valley Partnership\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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