{"id":164615,"date":"2025-11-28T17:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164615\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:31:15","slug":"over-half-of-consumers-says-less-money-to-spend-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164615\/","title":{"rendered":"Over half of consumers says less money to spend on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just over half of consumers say they have less money to spend this Christmas, compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Credit Union Consumer Sentiment Index for November shows the global outlook has picked up, but worries around household finances continue.<\/p>\n<p>Half of consumers say they\u2019re planning to cut back on presents this Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Economist Austin Hughes says they also looked into how people intend to fund this year\u2019s festivities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1consumers.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1consumers.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just over half of consumers say they have less money to spend this Christmas, compared to last year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-164615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}