Virginia consumers are feeling better about the economy than they did last spring, when the threat of tariffs caused sentiment to slide in a quarterly survey by Roanoke College, but most of them expect prices to go up in the next year.
Consumer sentiment inched up by one point in the new survey from the Institute for Policy and Opinion Research, reversing a slide in the last survey, published in May. The index for consumer sentiment was still the third-lowest since the college began the survey in 2011.
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