{
  "id": 3315670,
  "title": "August Consumer Confidence Downside Surprise",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/august-consumer-confidence-downside-surprise",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-25T16:48:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Econbrowser",
    "slug": "econbrowser",
    "url": "https://econbrowser.com/archives/2026/08/august-consumer-confidence-downside-surprise"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Conference Board indicator registers decline relative to downwardly revised July confidence: Figure 1: U.Michigan Economic Sentiment (blue), Conference Board Confidence Index (brown), Gallup Confidence (green), all demeaned and divided by standard deviation 2021M01-2025m02. Source: UMichigan, Gallup, Conference Board, and author’s calculations. While perceptions of current conditions improved,…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}