US 消費者 信用／信任 rises in January
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans continued to feel 確信して about the economy this month, a good 調印する for 消費者 spending and 経済成長.
The 会議／協議会 Board, a 商売／仕事 研究 group, says its 消費者 信用／信任 索引 rose to 125.4 in January from a 改訂するd 123.1 in December.
The 商売／仕事 研究 group's 索引 対策 消費者s' 査定／評価 of 現在の 条件s and their 見通し for the next six months. Their 見解（をとる） of today's 条件s slipped わずかに, but their 期待s for the 未来 rose.
経済学者s watch the 会議／協議会 Board 報告（する）／憶測 closely because 消費者 spending accounts for about 70 パーセント of U.S. 経済的な 生産（高）.
"消費者s remain やめる 確信して that the solid pace of growth seen in late 2017 will continue into 2018," said Lynn フランス系カナダ人, the 会議／協議会 Board's director of 経済的な 指示する人（物）s.
消費者 spending rose at a 3.8 パーセント 年次の pace from October through December last year, fastest pace since the spring of 2016. But Americans 港／避難所't been getting big 支払う／賃金 raises, so they've had to 下落する into 貯金. The 商務省 報告（する）／憶測d Monday that the 貯金 率 dropped to 2.4 パーセント of after-税金 income in December, lowest since September 2005.
"They're spending a lot more, but they are going into 負債 and saving いっそう少なく to do so," said Robert Frick, 経済学者 with the 海軍 連邦の Credit Union. "There has to be a reckoning at some point." Either 給料 will rise faster, he said, or 消費者s will 抑制（する） spending and put more money into 貯金 or 投資s.
