{"id":59233,"date":"2025-10-04T03:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T03:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/59233\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T03:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T03:23:12","slug":"us-consumer-confidence-falls-to-5-month-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/59233\/","title":{"rendered":"US consumer confidence falls to 5-month low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US consumer confidence fell in September to a five-month low, driven by concerns over the labor market.<\/p>\n<p>Americans\u2019 assessment of the economy\u2019s health has wavered in recent months, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/us-consumer-confidence-weakens-september-labor-market-worries-2025-09-30\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">unexpectedly steep drop<\/a> in a closely watched survey reflected persistent anxiety over inflation; the perceptions of job availability <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-30\/us-consumer-confidence-falls-to-five-month-low-on-job-market\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">dropped to a multi-year low<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those worries could deepen if the government shuts down Wednesday and President Donald Trump follows through with this threat of mass firings. Despite the pessimism and cooling labor market, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-consumer-spending-increases-solidly-august-2025-09-26\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">consumer spending has held up<\/a>, putting the Federal Reserve in an awkward spot as it mulls further interest rate cuts. The shutdown could also delay the release of key economic data, further complicating policymakers\u2019 decision making. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US consumer confidence fell in September to a five-month low, driven by concerns over the labor market. Americans\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-59233","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\/59233","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=59233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}