Consumer confidence highest since 2013

11 November 2020

 

Summary: Household sentiment improves for third consecutive month; confidence index comfortably above long-term average; “another strong result; highest since November 2013; index surges in Victoria; all but one components higher; unemployment index higher, respondents expect higher jobless rate   After a lengthy divergence between measures of consumer sentiment and business confidence in Australia which began in 2014, confidence readings of the two sectors converged again around July 2018. Both readings...

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