The sharp rebound in April's Conference Board's measure of consumer confidence to 68.1, from an upwardly revised 61.9 in March, was driven by the decline in gasoline prices and the continued rally in equity prices. Nonetheless, the details of the survey point to a slowdown in second-quarter consumption growth.
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