The University of Michigan Current Economic Conditions Index has historically acted as a contrarian indicator for stocks. The highest forward-looking returns for the S&P 500 have come when the index ...

Pessimism about the US economy deepened sharply in May, with Gallup's Economic Confidence Index dropping to its weakest reading since October 2022 (-45) as surging energy costs and widespread gloom ...

Mesa County residents are concerned the current state of the economy, a concern shared by county staff. That was one of the insights gleaned from the county’s 2026 community survey, the results of ...

BERLIN, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Investor morale in the euro zone returned to positive territory in August and rose for a fourth consecutive month, helped by a sharp improvement in current economic ...

The December 2025 reading was 50.4, and the 3-month rolling average in January 2026 hit 52.3. Both of those numbers are the lowest ever seen on this report going all the way back to the late 1970s.