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Consumer confidence drives business. A new index from The Conference Board, The Global Consumer Confidence Index, benchmarks consumer confidence and sentiment about spending for 64 nations around the globe . The latest numbers show consumer optimism in China, India, Germany, and the US, recovering sentiment in Europe, and declines in Canada, Latin America, and the UK. The index is the latest addition to our portfolio of indicators and is produced in collaboration with Nielsen, which began the survey in 2005.

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