Interest rate rise, stock price fall affect consumer sentiment

By IVCPOST Staff Reporter

Jul 13, 2013 08:16 AM EDT

In early July, fears regarding increasing interest rates and decreasing share costs dinged US consumer sentiment. Some data also exhibited a strong upsurge in wholesale prices. The market activity was expected to make Federal Reserve more at ease with its decision to lessen its financial stimulus.

The first analysis of the index of consumer sentiment from Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan plunged from 84.1 to 83.9 in June. The analysis that was published on Friday maintained its highest level for six years now. However, it was said to be lacking of forecasts.

"The collective mood of consumers may have slipped modestly but still remains upbeat," an investment officer for Plante Moran Financial Advisors in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Jim Baird, stated.

The decline transpired following a series of signals from the Fed. Fed said that it would end its bond-buying project. This further resulted to a selloff and increase in mortgage rates in June.

The data on Friday showed consistency with the sentiment that economic growth would accelerate by the end of 2013.

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