{"id":242394,"date":"2025-12-20T07:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242394\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:38:07","slug":"consumers-say-they-are-in-a-sour-mood-but-their-spending-habits-say-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242394\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers say they are in a sour mood, but their spending habits say something else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Dec. 19, 2025 at 10:33\u202fa.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\"><strong data-type=\"emphasis\" class=\"css-11kxzt3-Strong e1ofiv6m1\">The numbers:<\/strong> American consumers were in a foul mood as 2025 drew to a close, and they are skeptical the new year will much better, but the news isn\u2019t all bad. They are still spending plenty of money to keep the economic ball rolling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">A long-running survey of consumer sentiment registered a paltry 52.9 in December, <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sca.isr.umich.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-1y1y9ag-OverridedLink\">the University of Michigan<\/a> said Friday, leaving it near a record low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Dec. 19, 2025 at 10:33\u202fa.m. ET The numbers: American consumers were in a foul mood as 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[127498,79,82632,87183,127496,82648,127497,11441,56885,85031,179,18,233,96613,41579,19,5782,22043,85032,17,31400,123007,7809,127495,85049,7658,26243,96615],"class_list":{"0":"post-242394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-average-earnings","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-business-consumer-services","11":"tag-consumer-products","12":"tag-consumer-sentiment-figures","13":"tag-consumer-services","14":"tag-consumer-spending-figures","15":"tag-economic-news","16":"tag-economic-performance","17":"tag-economic-performance-indicators","18":"tag-economy","19":"tag-eire","20":"tag-employment","21":"tag-employment-unemployment-figures","22":"tag-gcapi","23":"tag-ie","24":"tag-indicators","25":"tag-inflation-figures","26":"tag-inflation-figures-price-indices","27":"tag-ireland","28":"tag-lay-offs","29":"tag-lay-offs-redundancies","30":"tag-personal-income","31":"tag-personal-income-average-earnings","32":"tag-price-indices","33":"tag-redundancies","34":"tag-synd","35":"tag-unemployment-figures"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}