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US Consumer sentiment edges up to year high
Consumer sentiment improved a tad in February to rack up a year high as Americans became more confident about the economy's resilience, a survey released on Friday showed. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's final reading on the overall index on consumer sentiment came in at 75.3, edging up from 75.0 the month before. It was the highest level since February 2011. It surpassed economists' expectations of 73.0 and recovered from a decline to 72.5 in February's preliminary reading. "It is not that surging oil prices, instability in the Mideast, the European crisis or uncertainties about future tax and ... (full story)