{"id":429303,"date":"2026-04-07T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/eurozone-april-sentix-investor-confidence-19-2-vs-9-0-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:40:18","slug":"eurozone-april-sentix-investor-confidence-19-2-vs-9-0-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/eurozone-april-sentix-investor-confidence-19-2-vs-9-0-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurozone April Sentix investor confidence -19.2 vs -9.0 expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior -3.1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">That&#8217;s the softest reading since April 2025 as euro area investor sentiment plunges amid the US-Iran conflict. The surge higher in energy prices and supply chain disruptions are two major factors in dragging down investor morale with Sentix noting that &#8220;investors realise that recession is once again on the table&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Adding that &#8220;the attacks on energy infrastructure and disruptions to shipping in the Persian Gulf are weighing even more heavily on people&#8217;s minds than they did four weeks ago&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Besides that, the expectations index also dropped drastically to -15.5 from 3.5 last month. Meanwhile, the current situation index also fell to -22.8 from -9.5 in March. All of that are also the lowest readings since April last year.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior -3.1 That&#8217;s the softest reading since April 2025 as euro area investor sentiment plunges amid the US-Iran conflict. The surge higher in energy prices and supply chain disruptions are two major factors in dragging down investor morale with Sentix noting that &#8220;investors realise that recession is once again on the table&#8221;. Adding that &#8220;the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}