These are measures calculated to help investors estimate where their money is safe. The current numbers are dropping. The question is are they precipitous or simply a misperception by consumers?
I believe consumers are rightfully concerned and are becoming protective of the money they do have. When a federal government turns on its very employees as if a disease there is no reason to have confidence in the federal government and focus becomes local.
I want to understand why Wall Street is even looking at these numbers anymore. Trump wants his empire to be wealthy only to a few. Everyone else will be impoverished if they are not there already. If consumers have less and less viable income these indexes will be mothballed as a thing of the past.
Capitalism won’t survive Trump.
