{"id":469460,"date":"2026-05-27T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/469460\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:52:10","slug":"french-consumer-sentiment-slumps-further-in-may-falling-to-lowest-since-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/469460\/","title":{"rendered":"French consumer sentiment slumps further in May, falling to lowest since March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">French consumer confidence tumbled lower in the latest month to 82, that being the weakest such reading since March 2023. Since the start of the US-Iran conflict, consumer confidence has fallen by 9 points in the past three months. That marks the steepest decline over the same period since 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">The details reveal a further decline across major sub-indices. Of note, the reading on the expected financial situation falls to -20 &#8211; also the lowest since March 2023. Then, there was also a steep decline in the reading for opportunity to make major purchases. That fell five points to -40, straying further away from the long-term average of -16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">The only bit of good news is that employment conditions held steadier while the outlook on future inflation also dropped back a little after surging in April. The latter fell back to 2 from 10 last month, but still sits considerably higher from -29 back in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French consumer confidence tumbled lower in the latest month to 82, that being the weakest such reading since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-469460","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\/469460","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=469460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}