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ANZ-Roy Morgan Australian Consumer Confidence Rating increases strongly in the New Year; up 5.5pts to 122.0

  • January 09 2018
  • Finding No. 7377
  • Topic: Consumer Confidence Press Release
  • Country: Australia
This weekly ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence Rating is based on 1,065 face-to-face interviews conducted Australia-wide with men and women aged 14 and over the weekend January 6/7, 2018.
ANZ-Roy Morgan Australian Consumer Confidence starts 2018 on a bright note with the headline index climbing 4.7% from mid-December to 122, the highest since November 2013. All the sub components showed significant increases.

  • Consumers remained optimistic about financial conditions, which rose to the highest since early 2017. Both current and future financial conditions registered gains, rising 5.8% and 4.2% from last reported respectively.

  • Economic prospects were also perceived to be much better. Current economic conditions rose 5.2% from last reported to 113.7, the highest since September 2013, while future economic conditions increased by 4.2% to 115.2.

  • Sentiment around the ‘time to buy a household item’ offset the 1.2% fall in December to increase by 4.4%. Inflation expectations remained stable at 4.5% in four week moving average terms despite higher petrol prices.
ANZ’s Head of Australian Economics, David Plank, commented:
“ANZ-Roy Morgan Australian Consumer Confidence starts the year on a high as the festive mood carries on to 2018. Continued strength in the labour market, and a strong performance in the Ashes series likely helped sustain the cheer among consumers. 

"It needs to be acknowledged that consumer confidence usually rises in the first reading for January. Still, the increase this year is stronger than the 3.6% average lift in confidence for the past nine ‘annual turns’, indicating that the gain in confidence is more than just seasonal. Confidence has been trending higher since the low for 2017 in late August.

"It is encouraging that consumers seemed willing to overlook their high debt burden, moderating house price gains and the impact of higher petrol prices. We think the continued strong growth in employment is the key driver. We’ll find out in February (with the next wages data) whether a pick-up in wage growth has also contributed to the gain in sentiment.”

Michele Levine, Chief Executive Officer, Roy Morgan, says:

“ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly Consumer Confidence has jumped to 122.0 – up 5.5pts since mid-December and at its highest for over four years since November 16/17, 2013 (122.9). The jump is in line with normal trends which show Consumer Confidence consistently increases in January as Australians enjoy their summer holidays however ‘unfortunately’ for the Turnbull Government Consumer Confidence tends to drift lower as more Australians return to work in the coming weeks.

“Consumer Confidence jumped across all five sub-indices this week and most notably now 35% (up 4ppts) of Australians say they are ‘better off’ financially than this time last year – the highest result for this indicator since September 2016 compared to only 22% (down 2ppts) saying they are ‘worse off’ financially while 38% (up 3ppts) now expect ‘good times’ for the Australian economy over the next 12 months and only 25% (down 2ppts) of Australians expect ‘bad times’.”



ANZ-Roy Morgan Australian Consumer Confidence Rating - January 9, 2018 - 122.0
ANZ-Roy Morgan Australian Consumer Confidence Rating - January 9, 2018

ANZ-Roy Morgan Australian Consumer Confidence Rating - January 9, 2018 - 122.0

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