{"id":52310,"date":"2025-09-30T15:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/52310\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:52:06","slug":"us-consumer-confidence-for-september-94-2-versus-96-0-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/52310\/","title":{"rendered":"US consumer confidence for September 94.2 versus 96.0 expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/us-consumer-confidence-for-august-974-versus-962-estimate-20250826\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article-link\" data-v-4026719d=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prior <\/a>was 97.4 (revised to 97.8)Worst since April<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">Details:<\/p>\n<p>Present situation 125.4 vs131.2 priorExpectations 73.4 vs  74.8 priorJobs hard-to-get 19.1 vs 19.1 prior<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">\u201cConsumer confidence weakened in September, declining to the lowest level since April 2025,\u201d said Stephanie Guichard, Senior Economist, Global Indicators at The Conference Board.<br \/>\n \u201cThe present situation component registered its largest drop in a year.<br \/>\n Consumers\u2019 assessment of business conditions was much less positive<br \/>\nthan in recent months, while their appraisal of current job availability<br \/>\n fell for the ninth straight month to reach a new multiyear low. This is<br \/>\n consistent with the decline in job openings. Expectations also weakened<br \/>\n in September, but to a lesser extent. Consumers were a bit more<br \/>\npessimistic about future job availability and future business conditions<br \/>\n but optimism about future income increased, mitigating the overall<br \/>\ndecline in the Expectations Index.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">This is the kind of thing that should have the leaning more towards a cut but the JOLTS numbers were slightly better and that has outweighed consumer sentiment, resulting in a mildly hawkish repricing in bonds, though in FX we&#8217;re seeing some light USD selling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior was 97.4 (revised to 97.8)Worst since April Details: Present situation 125.4 vs131.2 priorExpectations 73.4 vs 74.8 priorJobs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-52310","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\/52310","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=52310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}