{"id":234837,"date":"2026-06-22T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/ai-boom-boosts-economic-confidence-poll\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:30:11","slug":"ai-boom-boosts-economic-confidence-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/ai-boom-boosts-economic-confidence-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom boosts economic confidence: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/taiwan\/archives\/2026\/06\/22\/2003859545\">AI boom boosts economic confidence: Poll<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/taiwan\/archives\/2026\/06\/22\/2003859545\">https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/taiwan\/archives\/2026\/06\/22\/2003859545<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-22 06:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.taipeitimes.com\">www.taipeitimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Confidence in Taiwan\u2019s local economy has improved as the country\u2019s export-oriented economy benefits from the global artificial intelligence (AI) boom, according to a survey by Cathay Financial Holding.<\/li>\n<li>The current-month economic optimism index rose significantly, from 12 last month to 32 this month, reflecting improved sentiments.<\/li>\n<li>The six-month economic outlook index also improved, increasing from 7.4 last month to 25.5 this month.<\/li>\n<li>Respondents\u2019 optimism led to higher willingness to spend, more willingness to buy big-ticket items, and better wage expectations.<\/li>\n<li>A prediction of economic growth and an expectation for higher consumer price index (CPI) rates also indicate positive trends; however, respondents are generally more cautious compared to official government estimates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI boom boosts economic confidence: Poll https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/taiwan\/archives\/2026\/06\/22\/2003859545 Publish Date: 2026-06-22 06:14:00 Source Domain: www.taipeitimes.com Confidence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.taipeitimes.com\/images\/2026\/06\/22\/consumers.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-234837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234839,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234837\/revisions\/234839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}