Good morning! It’s Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money. Today, we offer conflicting views on the U.S. economy.
If you’re an American worker, you’re probably worried about the future of your company. You’re also becoming more concerned about the overall U.S. business environment.
Those are the deteriorating opinions found by Glassdoor, a job site and online work community. In the approximately 70,000 responses that make up its May survey, 44% of workers expressed a positive six-month outlook for their companies—the lowest level recorded in the survey’s nearly 10-year history.
Here is the data.
But optimism is rising among investors
Another survey suggests, however, that Americans may have gotten pretty good at tuning out negative news and predictions, at least when it comes to investing.
Individuals surveyed by the investment platform Wealthfront continued investing through April, a month of stock market volatility stemming from President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
And many say they plan to invest more in U.S. stocks in the future.
Prices rose less than expected in May
Inflation ticked higher in May but was more stable than expected, as another drop in gasoline prices was partly offset by the early effects of Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs.
Consumer prices increased 2.4% from a year earlier, up from a four-year low of 2.3% in the previous month, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index, a measure of average changes in goods and services costs.
Here’s the full story.
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Daniel de Visé covers personal finance for USA Today.
