{"id":351085,"date":"2026-03-27T19:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351085\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:35:06","slug":"consumer-sentiment-falls-as-iran-war-pushes-gas-prices-and-mortgages-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351085\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer sentiment falls as Iran war pushes gas prices and mortgages up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"7VDOGYZ2KBHDNJHKI27V3473PU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Americans are feeling gloomier about the economy in recent weeks, as the disruptions caused by the Iran war send gas prices skyrocketing and mortgage rates climbing.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"X5UCSRAHEBBKXHVKPH7CPT6BAE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Consumer sentiment, a measurement of Americans\u2019 economic perceptions, fell nearly 6 percent to its lowest level since December, according to a closely watched index from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sca.isr.umich.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of Michigan. <\/a>Sentiment about the economy had been trending upward in the initial weeks of research, the survey\u2019s early results found, but dipped significantly after the war in Iran began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Americans are feeling gloomier about the economy in recent weeks, as the disruptions caused by the Iran war&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-351085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}