Today in Data: Declining Consumer Confidence

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Data

$267.2B: Orders last month for manufactured durable goods, a sign that consumers were still spending despite inflation

98.7: The Consumer Confidence Index, down from 103.2 last month, and the lowest level since February 2021

43.2: Decline in points in the Expectations Index, measuring consumers’ short-term outlook on the income, business and labor markets, between March 2021 and June 2022

½: Share of paycheck-to-paycheck consumers who said their salary only covers basic expenses