4 Confidence Charts

Here are four charts reflecting confidence survey readings.  These are from the SentimenTrader.com site.

I find these charts valuable as they provide a long-term history of each survey, which is rare.

Each survey chart is plotted in blue, below the S&P500:

(click on each chart to enlarge image)

Conference Board Consumer Confidence, last updated 6-29-10:



University of Michigan Consumer Confidence, last updated 7-16-10:



ABC News Consumer Comfort Index, last updated 7-8-10:




NFIB Small Business Optimism, last updated 7-15-10:



As one can see, these charts continue to show subdued readings, especially when viewed from a long-term perspective.

These charts should be interesting to monitor going forward.  Although I don't believe that confidence surveys should be overemphasized, they do help to delineate how the economic environment is being perceived.

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SPX at 1094.59 as this post is written