Sentence examples for confidence gauge from inspiring English sources

Another indicator, the commission's consumer confidence gauge, declined to minus 18 from minus 15 in April.

But another confidence gauge — the gap, or spread, between Italian and German 10-year bonds — barely budged.

Economists expected that the Conference Board's September confidence gauge would climb to 46, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg survey.

The "quit rate" found in the JOLTS job openings report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics is a favored statistic by Janet Yellen, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and is seen as a type of confidence gauge for job seekers.

Investors appeared more concerned with the latest consumer figures from the Conference Board, which said its confidence gauge came in at 46.6 for July, down from June's 49.3.

Later Tuesday the Conference Board's consumer confidence gauge for July is expected to show a slight decline from the 52.9 reading reported a month ago.

On July 1st it released a decent set of purchasing-managers' indices (PMIs), a closely watched series of confidence gauges it compiles each month.

The usefulness of consumer confidence gauges as a forecast for spending is questionable, but on Monday the Commerce Department did report another slight uptick in consumer spending of 0.3% in February, after a 0.4% January rise.

Over the years, industry economists have looked at three economic factors — home sales, employment numbers and consumer confidence — to gauge how well the car market will do.

The value of retail sales rose by 1.2% in May, and by 8.9% in the year to May.American consumer confidence, as gauged by the University of Michigan's consumer confidence index, rebounded in early June from its slump in May.

Was the pressure to achieve that I placed on my children effectively destroying their self-confidence, making them gauge their self-worth on a single, narrow measure?