{"id":59685,"date":"2025-04-29T08:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T08:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/59685\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T08:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T08:07:13","slug":"austin-hughes-consumers-in-ni-can-see-some-encouraging-signs-amid-a-very-challenging-economic-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/59685\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Hughes: Consumers in NI can see some encouraging signs amid a very challenging economic outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UK house prices jumped by 5.4% in the year to February (Jonathan Brady\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fa2e78a3-24fa-4526-a2c1-b304cd117d0d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">UK house prices jumped by 5.4% in the year to February (Jonathan Brady\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With the outlook for the world economy changing dramatically and dangerously on an almost hourly basis of late, it\u2019s hard to plan for tomorrow, never mind think about how things might look five years from now in 2030.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">However, every day, consumers in Northern Ireland and elsewhere face a range of financial decisions that will prove to be wise or otherwise depending on what the future holds for them. Should I buy a house? Should I change jobs? Can I afford to go on holiday? Do I need to save more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK house prices jumped by 5.4% in the year to February (Jonathan Brady\/PA) With the outlook for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[487,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-59685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-cost-of-living","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114420229377815581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}