{"id":430076,"date":"2026-05-04T15:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/eurozone-may-sentix-investor-confidence-16-4-vs-21-0-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:40:21","slug":"eurozone-may-sentix-investor-confidence-16-4-vs-21-0-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/eurozone-may-sentix-investor-confidence-16-4-vs-21-0-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurozone May Sentix investor confidence -16.4 vs -21.0 expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior -19.2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Euro area investor morale surprisingly picks up in May, indicating that investors do not expect a further escalation to the US-Iran conflict. There was one notable exception though, being Germany, with the index there falling further to -30.9 from -27.7 in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Of note, the expectations index also showed an improvement as it moves up from -15.5 in the previous month to -11.3 in May. Meanwhile, the current situation index is just up marginally from -22.8 in April to -21.5 in May. While showing some improvement, Sentix is quick to caution that &#8220;both indices remain in negative territory, meaning the risk of recession remains acute&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior -19.2 Euro area investor morale surprisingly picks up in May, indicating that investors do not expect a further escalation to the US-Iran conflict. There was one notable exception though, being Germany, with the index there falling further to -30.9 from -27.7 in April. Of note, the expectations index also showed an improvement as it [&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-430076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430076","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=430076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}