The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index increased to 111.7 this month, the highest since July 2023, from a revised 109.6 in October.

Democrat-centric California was one of just 19 states that didn’t support Republican Trump in the presidential election. Curiously, California confidence rose 18% in the three months following Trump’s first win in 2016. Californians’ sour outlook of their economics future was key to the drop in this measure of confidence.

As the country heads toward the end of the year holidays, consumers continue to express confidence in the U.S. economy.In November, the Conference Boar