LOS ANGELES -- Nearly 70 percent of Americans are pessimistic about inflation and stock market in the next six months, according to a poll's results released by Gallup on Monday.
The poll found that 67 percent of the U.S. adults expect inflation to go worse in the next six months, while only 20 percent of the poll respondents believe the inflation will go down and 12 percent believe it will remain the same.
And the public outlook for unemployment and stock market has also become more pessimistic, as the poll revealed.
The poll results indicated that in the stock market, a record-high 48 percent plurality of American adults predict that U.S. stocks will fall in the next six months.
In response to high inflation, the U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates seven times in 2022, and 74 percent of Americans predict that interest rates will increase over the next six months, according to the poll.
Many experts warned that the problem of the U.S. debt ceiling has not been resolved for a long time, or it will cause damage to the global economy.