Despite the small rise in the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index in September, consumer confidence remains in a slump. At face value, weak sentiment points to softer consumer spending, but confidence has not been an accurate gauge of consumption growth for some time now, so we would take it with a pinch of salt.
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