{"id":652,"date":"2026-05-12T06:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:41:01","slug":"uk-households-cut-back-spending-at-fastest-rate-in-18-months-barclays-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"UK households cut back spending at fastest rate in 18 months, Barclays says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dip in credit card spending in April, particularly on travel, suggests Britons preparing for harder times amid Iran war fallout<\/p>\n<p>Households cut back on their spending in April at the fastest pace in 18 months, as the conflict in the Middle East provoked fears of another cost of living crisis, a report from one of the UK\u2019s biggest banks has suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Barclays, which processes nearly 40% of the UK\u2019s credit and debit card transactions, said its data showed there had been a 0.1% fall in card spending last month compared with a year earlier. This was the first year-on-year fall since November 2024.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/12\/uk-households-cut-spending-barclays-credit-card-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dip in credit card spending in April, particularly on travel, suggests Britons preparing for harder times amid Iran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}