{"id":22,"date":"2026-09-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/llurlenduarte-com\/2026\/09\/23\/us-consumer-confidence-hits-a-seven-month-low\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:00:00","slug":"us-consumer-confidence-hits-a-seven-month-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.llurlenduarte.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/23\/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\/llurlen-duarte-1\/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>US consumer confidence recently dipped to its lowest point in seven months. In mid-Q3, people felt more positive about their current situation, but their outlook for income, business activity, and jobs over the next few months became more cautious. The present-conditions index jumped about 7 points to 121, while expectations fell roughly 6 points to 68\u2014slipping below the level that often signals recession risk. Early in Q3, employers cut 23,000 jobs, and unemployment crept up to nearly 4%, mainly because fewer people were participating in the workforce, not because hiring improved.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, even as confidence softened, the desire to buy homes only eased slightly in mid-Q3 and continued to grow. Around 61% of consumers still expected interest rates to rise further. With policymakers keeping rates steady and markets projecting limited short-term relief, borrowing costs for buyers appear likely to stay high through the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who works with buyers and sellers looking to make strategic moves\u2014whether upsizing, downsizing, or investing\u2014understanding how these economic signals impact opportunities is key. Navigating these shifts requires careful planning and a deep knowledge of the local market to ensure that every transaction aligns with your long-term goals.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US consumer confidence recently dipped to its lowest point in seven months. In mid-Q3, people felt more positive about their current situation, but their outlook for income, business activity, and jobs over the next few months became more cautious. The present-conditions index jumped about 7 points to 121, while expectations fell roughly 6 points to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.llurlenduarte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.llurlenduarte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.llurlenduarte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.llurlenduarte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.llurlenduarte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.llurlenduarte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.llurlenduarte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.llurlenduarte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.llurlenduarte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.llurlenduarte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}