U.S. Economic Confidence Slides Amid Coronavirus Situation

Americans’ economic confidence, which last month reached its highest point in almost 20 years, has been shaken in the midst of the novel coronavirus threat. The COVID-19 pandemic fueled major stock market losses in recent weeks, and Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index fell from +41 in February to +22 in March. CONT.

Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup