{"id":571696,"date":"2026-07-28T07:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/571696\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:21:07","slug":"consumer-sentiment-slips-in-july-on-cost-of-living-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/571696\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer sentiment slips in July on cost-of-living woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer sentiment fell slightly in July on concerns about the cost of living, the latest Credit Union Consumer Sentiment Survey shows today.<\/p>\n<p>The sentiment survey slipped to 61.6 in July from 62.2 in June. That is well below the long-term survey average of 83.2, but above a 40-month low of 53.3 hit in April following a sharp rise in fuel costs as a result of the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Sub-indices measuring current conditions, consumer expectations and the economic outlook all fell slightly, the survey showed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Concerns about the cost of living continue to outweigh all other economic issues,&#8221; said Irish League of Credit Unions CEO David Malone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumer sentiment fell slightly in July on concerns about the cost of living, the latest Credit Union Consumer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-571696","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\/571696","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=571696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}