Gallup: U.S. Economic Confidence Index averaged -12 for the week ending Jan. 24. This is down from -7 the week before, but is in line with most other weekly averages Gallup has recorded since mid-2015. President Barack Obama's upbeat analysis of the nation's economic progress in his Jan. 12 State of the Union speech may have helped lift the weekly Economic Confidence Index five points to -7. That gain disappeared last week, with the index returning to -12...
