Australia - Westpac Consumer Confidence (February): +4.2% m/m (prior -3.5%)

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Australia - Westpac Consumer Confidence Index for February

  • Up 4.2% m/m to 101.3
  • Last month's was 3.5% fall to 97.3

Up 0.6% for the y/y

Westpac's chief economist Bill Evans comments:

  • The resilience of sentiment, and in particular, respondents' assessments of their own financial position are not pointing to a significant deterioration in domestic demand
  • Possible the rebound had a lot to do with lower petrol prices

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