Should investors be reassured by confident US consumers?

Yesterday’s surge in the Conference Board’s index of US consumer confidence to a 16-year high of 125.6 is not, in our view, a reason to be positive about the outlook for the stock market. Our end-2017 forecast for the S&P 500 remains 2,300, which is slightly lower than its level today.

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