Economy: April Showed Improvement

Consumers felt much more upbeat about the economy in April, a month when the nation’s manufacturing sector appeared to be crawling out of a deep recessionary hole.

The news is fresh evidence that the U.S. economy may be on a slow path to recovery on the back of a huge federal economic stimulus package and the Federal Reserve’s efforts to prop up the banking sector.

Most of the indicators showed a solid improvement, and even though they are still solidly in a zone associated with recession, they are nowhere near the deep recession/depression type levels feared a few months back.

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