Utah’s consumer sentiment increased nearly 5 percent in July — from 77.3 in June to 81.1 — according to the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute’s Survey of Utah Consumer Sentiment.

That’s better than the U.S. did as a whole for the same month. A similar survey by the University of Michigan found that sentiment fell 2.6 percent among Americans, from 68.2 to 66.4.

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