{"id":23287,"date":"2026-05-27T01:22:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/consumer-confidence-slips-for-first-time-in-months\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:22:04","slug":"consumer-confidence-slips-for-first-time-in-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/consumer-confidence-slips-for-first-time-in-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer confidence slips for first time in months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. consumer confidence in May saw its first drop after three months of gains as Americans grapple with rising prices and inflation, both driven up by the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran, the&nbsp;monthly consumer confidence index report said Tuesday. Confidence dipped 0.7 points to 93.1 in May&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/5896053-may-consumer-confidence-decline\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. consumer confidence in May saw its first drop after three months of gains as Americans grapple with rising prices and inflation, both driven up by the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran, the&nbsp;monthly consumer confidence index report said Tuesday. Confidence dipped 0.7 points to 93.1 in May&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}