{"id":539172,"date":"2026-07-22T20:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539172\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:31:10","slug":"consumer-confidence-falls-while-business-confidence-improves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/539172\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer confidence falls while business confidence improves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/iriefm.net\/consumer-confidence-falls-while-business-confidence-improves\/\" class=\"post-thumbnail\" aria-hidden=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7d8f30feb1dd275ed65350a8b74390b9-800x500-c-default.png\" class=\"featured-image tease-featured-image \" alt=\"Consumer confidence falls while business confidence improves\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Sugar Ray Thomas<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consumer confidence fell by 2.3% over the second quarter of 2026 while business confidence showed a modest improvement up by 2.6%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Executive Chairman of Market Research Services, Don Anderson made the disclosure while presenting the confidence indices for the second quarter of 2026 yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just over 610 people were surveyed while 116 business owners were interviewed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Anderson said various views influenced the fall in consumer confidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These include a less positive view towards current business conditions and job situations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said 53% of consumers are expecting their personal financial situation to get better despite their negative perception towards the performance of businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Anderson said individuals are confident that their businesses are recovering from Hurricane Melissa despite high energy costs\u00a0 and other factors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said business operators reported that they feel now is a good time to invest.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sugar Ray Thomas Consumer confidence fell by 2.3% over the second quarter of 2026 while business confidence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-539172","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\/539172","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=539172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}