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Current conditions, they have low expectations for the future, and they worry in particular about a rise in inflation over the course of the coming year. let s break down some numbers for you. the overall consumer sentiment index fell from march s relateively from the rater of before to below 70, not far from where we were in the dark days of april 09 when this indicator stood at a flabby 69.5. now let s look at expectations. one year ago, consumers mustered only a 63 in terms of expectations, by last month, that had risen to almost 68 but here in april we find expectations have sunk even lower than they were one year ago, that second low, row, the m to m, that shows you the month to month change, that shows expectations de cliebd 5 1/2% when they dropped by half a prcialg point from february, the bottom row, that shows you year to year changes and we see expectations down almost a full point from a year ago, ....