{"id":256138,"date":"2026-04-07T18:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256138\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:51:09","slug":"oc-business-leaders-moderately-more-optimistic-csuf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256138\/","title":{"rendered":"OC Business Leaders Moderately More Optimistic: CSUF\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County business leaders have grown moderately more optimistic about the prospects for the current quarter, according to economists at California, State University Fullerton led by Anil Puri.<\/p>\n<p>Their OCBX business expectations index for this quarter has shown a modest improvement, rising to 68.5% from 66% in the first quarter of 2026. A score above 50 on the OCBX indicates an expectation of future economic growth for Orange County.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing war with Iran, rising fuel costs, persistent inflation, and interest rates are identified as the most pressing challenges facing local firms, according to the CSUF survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County business leaders have grown moderately more optimistic about the prospects for the current quarter, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-256138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}