{"id":606780,"date":"2026-08-28T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/606780\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:56:09","slug":"consumer-sentiment-sees-slight-rise-in-latest-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/606780\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer sentiment sees slight rise in latest survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer sentiment rose slightly in August \u2060to close to the level it stood at before the Middle East conflict stoked concerns about the cost of living, a survey showed.<\/p>\n<p>The Credit Union Consumer \u200cSentiment Survey \u2060rose to 63.2 from 61.6 in July.<\/p>\n<p>The index stood at 65.2 in February before dropping to a 40-month low of 53.3 \u200cin April following a sharp rise in fuel \u2060costs as a result \u200cof the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>While the improved reading remains \u2060well \u200cbelow the long-term survey average of 83.1, the index has averaged a subdued \u206064.1 over the last five years, even as \u2060the economy has continued to grow strongly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This suggests this pressure (on consumers) is sustained as well as substantial,&#8221; the survey&#8217;s authors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumer sentiment rose slightly in August \u2060to close to the level it stood at before the Middle East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-606780","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\/606780","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=606780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}