(Opalesque) U.S. investor optimism perked up in the fourth quarter pushing the Wells Fargo/Gallup Investor Optimism Index score up to 84 from 72 in the third quarter. It is now on par with an 85 score in the second quarter.
Gallup conducted the poll Oct. 7-13 as the stock market was making modest gains. The survey also followed the federal government’s monthly jobs report announcing that hiring had cooled in September amidst the ongoing trade war1, but that the unemployment rate had dipped to 3.5%, a 50-year low.
