Monday, October 9, 2017

WSJ: What Is the Household Economic Stress Index?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

The PNC U.S. Household Economic Stress Index is something that smart investors might want to watch. As the name suggests, it is a measure of how stressed U.S. consumers are on an aggregate basis.

“It’s a variation on the misery index,” says Stuart G. Hoffman, senior economic adviser at PNC Financial Services Group in Pittsburgh. Read more here.

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