Can U.S. Consumers Bounce Back? 3 Numbers to Watch

The GDP data released this morning confirmed that the U.S. economy slowed to a crawl in the first quarter of 2015, growing just 0.2 percent. More troubling, at least in some ways: The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index unexpectedly declined this month. Ominously, the weakness was driven by worries over the health of the job market. Both current conditions and future expectations fell in the report released yesterday, with the latter dropping to levels not seen since September.