GfK.s UK Consumer Confidence Index has stayed at the same level this month at -2. Two of the five measures used to calculate the Index Score saw decreases this month, two of the five measures stayed at the same level and the remaining measure saw an increase. Nick Moon, Managing Director of Social Research at GfK, says: “This is the eighth month in a row that the Index has stood within two points either way of -1. We are clearly in very different territory to the period between April 2013 and June 2014 when there was a dramatic overall rise. Sluggishness like this has happened before, most notably from July 2011 to ... (full story)