Did California finish 2025 with booming confidence?

By one measure, Californians got a surprising boost of optimism at the year’s end.

The Conference Board’s monthly consumer confidence index for the state took its largest one-month jump on record for December. This yardstick of shopper psyche, created by polls that run to mid -month, date to 2007.

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