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Consumer confidence drops to lowest point since 1992
01/05/2008 09:25:00
The confidence of consumers in the UK has fallen to its lowest level since November 1992, revealed new research.
According to the results of April's Gfk NOP Consumer Confidence index, there was a drop of five points from March.
Stories of fuel poverty, the credit crunch and recession were supposedly to blame for taking the barometer to minus 24 points and its lowest score since 1992.
Rachael Joy, of the Consumer Confidence team at GfK NOP, said that the drop, which was the eighth consecutive one, was driven by general confidence in the UK's economy being shaken.
"With the news dominated by stories of recession, the credit crunch, housing market falls, and future petrol and food price increases, it will take more than a quarter point reduction in interest rates to alleviate the current gloomy mood of the UK consumer," she continued.
Previously, the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams had warned that the government should do more to help alleviate the cycles of debt that were affecting many consumers in the UK.
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