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Consumer Confidence: How a Survey Moves Markets
A monthly poll of households, built on sampling and weighted questions, has become one of the most watched numbers in finance. Here is how it is made, and why traders care.

A monthly poll of households, built on sampling and weighted questions, has become one of the most watched numbers in finance. Here is how it is made, and why traders care.

A century-old accounting device built for wartime production still sets the terms of political debate. Knowing its limits matters as much as knowing its level.