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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