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The Conference Board’s May <a href="https://www.conference-board.org/topics/consumer-confidence" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Consumer Confidence Index</a> rose by 12.3 points, to 98.0, up from 85.7 in April, following five straight months of decline.

This month’s index came in better than economists had expected.

Other broader sentiment indicators improved.

The present situation index climbed by 4.8 points, to 135.9, and the expectations index rocketed by 17.4 points, to 72.8, approaching levels before President Donald Trump’s April 2 global tariff announcement.

While the bounce back had been ubiquitous earlier in the month, consumer confidence surged following the May 12 U.S.-China trade truce, says Stephanie Guichard, a senior economist at The Conference Board. More than half of the responses came in after the announcement.

U.S. and Chinese officials agreed to lower reciprocal tariffs by 115 percent between the two economies for 90 days as negotiators discuss economic and trade policy.

The better-than-expected increase was observed across all age groups, income categories, and political affiliations.

“The monthly improvement was largely driven by consumer expectations as all three components of the Expectations Index—business conditions, employment prospects, and future income—rose from their April lows,” Guichard said in the report.

Consumers’ six-month outlook over business conditions, employment availability, and income prospects was rosier, Guichard noted.

Write-in responses indicated that tariffs remain top of consumers’ minds. Some respondents emphasized concerns that tariffs would raise prices and harm the broader economy, while others alluded to easing inflation and lower gasoline prices.

The White House was pleased by the numbers.

“Despite doomsday prophesizing by the ‘experts,’ President Trump’s America First economic agenda of tariffs, tax cuts, rapid deregulation, and domestic energy production continues to pay off,” said White House spokesperson Kush Desai in a statement.

“Today’s consumer confidence report reflects multiple solid inflation and jobs reports that Americans have seen under President Trump, as well as a GDP report that showed a whopping 22 percent spike in gross domestic investment in first quarter 2025.”
<h2>Advancements on the Trade Front</h2>
Since trade-policy uncertainty has been the primary driver of deteriorating consumer sentiment and anxious business owners, eliminating uncertainty “could be the most powerful catalyst for an improved growth trajectory,” says Jeffrey Roach, the chief economist for LPL Financial.

“Trade uncertainty continues to weigh heavily on consumers and businesses. Economic growth expectations would likely improve if the administration removed tariff anxiety,” Roach said in a note emailed to The Epoch Times.

“For now, trade policy is the main contributor to volatility in capital markets and it appears these conditions will continue in the near term.”

Over the Memorial Day long weekend, President Donald Trump announced he was delaying the 50 percent tariff on the European Union to July 9.
<figure id="attachment_5860523" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 640px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-5860523"><a href="https://admin4.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2025/05/20/id5860523-05202025-DSC02482-Trump-1200x800.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-5860523 size-large" src="https://admin4.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2025/05/20/id5860523-05202025-DSC02482-Trump-1200x800.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="427" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-5860523" class="wp-caption-text">President Donald Trump arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 20, 2025. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times)</figcaption></figure>
The president, writing in a May 27 Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114580018376822663" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">post</a>, announced that EU officials have reached out to schedule meeting dates.

“This is a positive event, and I hope that they will, finally, like my same demand to China, open up the European nations for trade with the United States of America,” Trump said. “They will both be very happy, and successful, if they do!”

During an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE_vBouvbF8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">interview</a> with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on May 27, National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett suggested that more trade developments could unfold this week.

“I expect we’ll probably see a few more deals even this week. There’s some stuff very close to the finish. It’s up to the president, of course,” Hassett stated.

The tariff postponement, Hassett’s remarks, and a surge in consumer confidence sent U.S. stocks higher to kick off the holiday-shortened trading week.

The blue-chip <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/djia" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Dow Jones Industrial Average</a> rose more than 600 points, or 1.5 percent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/comp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Index</a> and the broader S&P 500 <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/spx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Index</a> rallied by 400 points and 100 points, respectively.

“The economic outlook is looking steadier with tariff increases largely paused, although growth seems to be holding in a lower gear,” said Bill Adams, the chief economist for Comerica Bank, in a note emailed to The Epoch Times.

“Consumers are feeling less jittery after the tariff pause announcements.”
<h2>Digesting Economic Data</h2>
Over the past few months, economic indicators have sent mixed signals amid the tariff turbulence.

New orders for key U.S.-manufactured capital goods registered the largest decline since October. According to the <a href="https://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/adv/current/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Census Bureau</a>, durable goods orders plummeted 6.3 percent last month, down from a slightly upwardly adjusted 7.6 percent increase in March.

The April reading came in slightly better than projected.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’s Texas Manufacturing Index—a monthly industry survey of the sector’s prevailing economic conditions—improved by <a href="https://www.dallasfed.org/research/surveys/tmos/2025/2505" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">20 points in May</a>, following a near five-year low in April. However, general business activity for Texas manufacturing remained in contraction territory for the fourth consecutive month.

It is crucial to monitor the economy’s underlying health, says Chris Zaccarelli, the CIO of Northlight Asset Management.

“For now, we see an economy that is slowing and taking some time to adapt to the ‘new normal’ of rapid changes in trade policy, but as long as it stays out of recession, we believe the market has more room to go to the upside in the short run,” Zaccarelli said in a note emailed to The Epoch Times.

The next major data release will be the second estimate for first-quarter GDP on May 29. The initial estimate showed a 0.3 percent decline, the first contraction since early 2022.

For now, economic observers expect no sizable changes.

“While a positive revision to the advance GDP estimate would likely benefit near-term sentiment and a deeper contraction would harm it, the result is not likely to change the economic story,” said ITR Economics economist Lauren Saidel-Baker in a note emailed to The Epoch Times.

<em>From <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/tariff-pause-fuels-consumer-optimism-as-us-confidence-rebounds-in-may-5863997">The Epoch Times</a></em>

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