{"id":14,"date":"2026-09-10T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/gourihundlekar-realty-com\/2026\/09\/10\/us-consumer-confidence-hits-a-seven-month-low\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:00:00","slug":"us-consumer-confidence-hits-a-seven-month-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gourihundlekar-realty.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/10\/us-consumer-confidence-hits-a-seven-month-low\/","title":{"rendered":"US Consumer Confidence Hits a Seven-Month Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/gouri-hundlekar\/consumer-confidence-just-hit-a-seven-month-low-heres-whats-driving-it-remotion-videos-4b26\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In Mid-Q3, US consumers felt better about current conditions, but confidence overall softened as views of income, business, and jobs over coming months worsened.<br \/>\nThe present-conditions index \u2191~7 points to 121, while the expectations gauge \u2193~6 points to 68, slipping below a level long tied to recession risk.<br \/>\nIn Early-Q3, employers cut 23K jobs, and unemployment edged to ~4% largely because workers left the labor force, not because hiring improved.<br \/>\nEven with softer confidence, homebuying expectations eased only slightly in Mid-Q3 and kept rising, while ~61% still expected interest rates to move higher.<br \/>\nWith federal policymakers holding rates steady and markets pricing limited near-term relief, borrowing costs looked set to stay elevated through year-end for buyers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mid-Q3, US consumers felt better about current conditions, but confidence overall softened as views of income, business, and jobs over coming months worsened. The present-conditions index \u2191~7 points to 121, while the expectations gauge \u2193~6 points to 68, slipping below a level long tied to recession risk. In Early-Q3, employers cut 23K jobs, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gourihundlekar-realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gourihundlekar-realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gourihundlekar-realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gourihundlekar-realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gourihundlekar-realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gourihundlekar-realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gourihundlekar-realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gourihundlekar-realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gourihundlekar-realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}