Economic Optimism Falls As Americans Pan Trump’s China Trade War

The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index slid 5.4 points to 53.2 in early June, an abrupt comedown from May’s 15-year high. President Donald Trump’s decision to escalate the China trade war by hiking tariffs on May 10 loomed large in the reversal. CONT.

Jed Graham, Investor’s Business Daily