{"id":7772,"date":"2008-10-17T11:21:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T16:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/?p=7772"},"modified":"2008-10-17T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T16:21:53","slug":"20081017%e5%8a%a0%e6%8b%bf%e5%a4%a7%e6%b6%88%e8%b4%b9%e8%80%85%e4%bf%a1%e5%bf%83%e8%b7%8c%e8%87%b326%e5%b9%b4%e4%bd%8e%e8%b0%b7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/?p=7772","title":{"rendered":"20081017\/\u52a0\u62ff\u5927\u6d88\u8d39\u8005\u4fe1\u5fc3\u8dcc\u81f326\u5e74\u4f4e\u8c37"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canadian consumer confidence at 26-year low<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oct 17, 2008 11:00 AM <\/p>\n<p>THE CANADIAN PRESS<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA\u2013Consumer confidence has fallen to the lowest level in 26 years, according to the Conference Board of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The think-tank says its survey of 2,000 Canadians early this month showed a sharp drop in sentiment after three months of rising optimism.<\/p>\n<p>The Conference Board&#8217;s national consumer confidence index fell 11.9 points to 73.9 \u2013 the lowest level since the third quarter of 1982, when Canada was mired in recession.<\/p>\n<p>The Oct. 2-8 poll was conducted as financial turmoil intensified around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The global credit crunch and major stock market declines clearly had an effect on consumer confidence in October,&#8221; observed Pedro Antunes, the Conference Board&#8217;s director of national and provincial forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition, consumers felt that they would be worse off in six months, indicating concerns that the financial crisis would not be resolved quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Confidence fell drastically in Ontario \u2013 plummeting 16.6 points from 84.5 in September to 67.9 in October, in the steepest monthly decrease on record for the province.<\/p>\n<p>The index, set at 100 in 2002, fell 12.5 points in British Columbia, 10.2 points in Quebec, 6.1 points on the Prairies and 4.9 points in Atlantic Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian consumer confidence at 26-year low Oct 17, 2008 11:00 AM THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA\u2013Consumer confidence has fallen to the lowest level in 26 y&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/?p=7772\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}