{"id":315959,"date":"2026-02-25T05:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315959\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T05:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:26:09","slug":"confidence-and-sentiment-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315959\/","title":{"rendered":"Confidence and Sentiment: February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of the Conference Board\u2019s Confidence Index, and the SF Fed\u2019s News Sentiment Index, we have the following picture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sent_conf_newssentstd4a.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59761\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sent_conf_newssentstd4a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"835\" height=\"561\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 1: U.Michigan Economic Sentiment (blue), Conference Board Confidence Index (brown), SF news sentiment index (light green), all demeaned and divided by standard deviation 2021M01-2025m02. Red dashed line at \u201cLiberation Day\u201d Source: UMichigan, Gallup, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conference-board.org\/topics\/consumer-confidence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conference Board<\/a>, and author\u2019s calculations.<\/p>\n<p>The Conference Board\u2019s index remains mired at fairly low levels, although higher than pandemic period levels.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2026\/02\/confidence-and-sentiment-february-2026\" title=\"2:08 pm\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 24, 2026<\/a> by <a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Menzie Chinn<\/a>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the release of the Conference Board\u2019s Confidence Index, and the SF Fed\u2019s News Sentiment Index, we have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-315959","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\/315959","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=315959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}