{
  "id": 8975631,
  "title": "Fed Data Show Consumers Shift Spending Toward Homes and Vacations",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/fed-data-show-consumers-shift-spending-toward-homes-and-vacations",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-21T18:03:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/economy/2026/fed-data-show-consumers-shift-spending-toward-homes-and-vacations/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Households continued to spend more in August, although at a slower rate than earlier in the year. The median reported year-over-year increase in monthly household spending was 4.7%, compared with 4.8% in April and 4.9% in December 2025, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Household Spending Survey, released Monday (Sept. 21). Conducted […] The post Fed Data Show Consumers Shift…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "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."
}