The Conference Board's latest data reveal a resurgent, albeit fragile, upswing in US consumer confidence for May, arresting a five-month nadir; the index burgeoned by 12.3 points to 98, a marked recovery from April's nadir of 85.7, a figure not witnessed since the pandemic's incipience, ostensibly propelled by a marginal abatement of anxieties pertaining to the macroeconomic ramifications of the Trump administration's tariff impositions, yet the sub-80 reading for near-term income, business climate, and employment anticipations persists as a harbinger of potential economic deceleration, notwithstanding the Labor Department's report of 177,000 newly generated positions in April, which furnished a modicum of reassurance, though anxieties apropos of tariff-induced inflation remain paramount in respondent sentiment, juxtaposed against which is an observable uptick in planned expenditure for residential property, vehicular acquisitions, and leisure pursuits.