{"id":6203,"date":"2026-08-29T07:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T07:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/29\/affirm-ceo-flags-high-gas-prices-as-a-drag-on-u-s-shoppers-despite-strong-earnings\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T07:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T07:39:15","slug":"affirm-ceo-flags-high-gas-prices-as-a-drag-on-u-s-shoppers-despite-strong-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/29\/affirm-ceo-flags-high-gas-prices-as-a-drag-on-u-s-shoppers-despite-strong-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Affirm CEO Flags High Gas Prices as a Drag on U.S. Shoppers Despite Strong Earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Affirm Holdings, the buy now, pay later giant, reported strong fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and a better-than-expected outlook. However, CEO Max Levchin cautioned that high gas prices are significantly impacting U.S. consumers, who are increasingly using Affirm&#8217;s services to manage overall inflationary pressures.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108355733-17879229911787922987-48036610820-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1787922990&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y\" alt=\"Affirm CEO Max Levchin\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/08\/26\/affirm-ceo-high-gas-prices-hitting-us-shoppers-despite-strong-earnings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Affirm Holdings, the buy now, pay later giant, reported strong fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and a better-than-expected outlook. However, CEO Max Levchin cautioned that high gas prices are significantly impacting U.S. consumers, who are increasingly using Affirm&#8217;s services to manage overall inflationary pressures. READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108355733-17879229911787922987-48036610820-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1787922990&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-technology","rifnote_country-united-states","rifnote_executive-max-levchin"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108355733-17879229911787922987-48036610820-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1787922990&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}