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The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index for March was released on Friday and found that consumer sentiment across the board plunged from last month.

The market shrugged off the University of Michigan’s latest consumer sentiment survey, but Rosenberg Research's David Rosenberg sure didn’t. In a note on Friday, Rosenberg called it “the worst ...