GAINESVILLE, Fla. — High energy costs, volatility in the stock market and especially the housing slump are to blame for consumer confidence among Floridians plummeting 11 points to 76 in August, its lowest level in more than a decade, University of Florida economists report.
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Consumers in Florida have become so pessimistic about the economy and their own finances that consumer confidence in August fell to its lowest level in thirteen years.
Here’s the print version of InsideUF for August 29, 2006.
President J. Bernard Machen introduces Inside UF, your new campus news source.
The Health Science Center Libraries invite all interested faculty, staff and students to the Aug. 30 opening of “Changing the Face of Medicine,” a special exhibition from the National Library of Medicine.
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This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of August 28th.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University officials are monitoring the track of Tropical Storm Ernesto.
Maxine L. Margolis, a professor of anthropology, was quoted in an Aug. 27 Associated Press national wire story about illegal plastic surgeries in the Brazilian community.
Dr. Carl Pepine, former president of the American College of Cardiology and chief of the division of cardiovascular medicine, was quoted in an Aug. 26 Associated press national wire story about former President Gerald Ford’s angioplasty.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Judy Campbell, a doctoral student from the University of Florida College of Nursing, has been chosen to receive a scholarship supporting the work of future leaders in geriatric nursing.