Investors watch confidence measures for signs of whether consumers might start shopping more or making bigger purchases such as cars and homes. Spending by consumers makes up more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.
At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average is up 196 to 8,473. The S&P 500 index is up 23 to 910, and the Nasdaq composite index is up 58 to 1,750.
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