{"id":178189,"date":"2025-08-26T22:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/178189\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:55:17","slug":"august-consumer-confidence-dips-with-jobs-tariffs-and-high-prices-driving-unease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/178189\/","title":{"rendered":"August consumer confidence dips with jobs, tariffs and high prices driving unease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WASHINGTON &#8212; Americans\u2019 view of the U.S. economy declined modestly in August as anxiety over a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/job-openings-economy-unemployment-trump-tariffs-e947a345b65792e7ecde0b52947c2ee7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weakening job market<\/a> grew for the eighth straight month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index ticked down by1.3 points to 97.4 in August, down from July\u2019s 98.7, but in the same narrow range of the past three months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The small decline in confidence was in line with analysts\u2019 forecasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A measure of Americans\u2019 short-term expectations for their income, business conditions and the job market fell by 1.2 points to 74.8, remaining significantly below 80, the marker that can signal a recession ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Consumers\u2019 assessments of their current economic situation also fell modestly, to 131.2 in August from 132.8 in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8212; Americans\u2019 view of the U.S. economy declined modestly in August as anxiety over a weakening job&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":178190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[100922,347,64,2239,12042,79,57,63,606,12041,61,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-178189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-100922","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economic-indicators","12":"tag-economic-policy","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-jobs-and-careers","16":"tag-labor","17":"tag-recessions-and-depressions","18":"tag-u-s-news","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115097536013798762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}