April Spending Exuberance Plunges Back To Earth In May As Income Growth Slows

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jun 29, 2016

After an exuberant April, spiking hope that everything was awesome with a surge in spending, May has dragged US consumers back down to earth. The 1.1% (revised) jump in spending in April (highest since Aug 09) is over as May’s 0.4% gain is back in the land of ‘normal’ once again. Income rose just 0.2% MoM (less than expected) slowing dramatically from last month to near the weakest YoY growth since March 2014. The savings rate fell once again on the back of this (down 0.1%) to 5.3%.

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