{"id":34332,"date":"2025-02-25T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/us-consumer-confidence-plunges-in-february-in-its-biggest-decline-in-four-years\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:21:32","slug":"us-consumer-confidence-plunges-in-february-in-its-biggest-decline-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/us-consumer-confidence-plunges-in-february-in-its-biggest-decline-in-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"US consumer confidence plunges in February in its biggest decline in four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Index reflects consumer optimism, which is shaky as inflation seems to be stuck and a trade war over tariffs looms<\/p>\n<p>US consumer confidence plummeted in February, the biggest monthly decline in more than four years, a business research group said on Tuesday, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/inflation\">inflation<\/a> seemingly stuck and a trade war under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> seen by a growing number of Americans as inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>The Conference Board reported that its consumer confidence index sank this month to 98.3 from 105.3 in January. That\u2019s far below the expectations of economists, who projected a reading of 103, according to a survey by FactSet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/25\/consumer-confidence-february\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Index reflects consumer optimism, which is shaky as inflation seems to be stuck and a trade war over tariffs looms US consumer confidence plummeted in February, the biggest monthly decline in more than four years, a business research group said on Tuesday, with inflation seemingly stuck and a trade war under Donald Trump seen by &#8230; <a title=\"US consumer confidence plunges in February in its biggest decline in four years\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/us-consumer-confidence-plunges-in-february-in-its-biggest-decline-in-four-years\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US consumer confidence plunges in February in its biggest decline in four years\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}