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DFA is releasing the latest in our 52,000 household survey series examining household financial confidence. The score to mid January is an all-time low of 81.2, well below the neutral setting and the previous low back in 2015. A series of events, including the bushfires and the perceived weakness in the Federal Government response, the … Continue reading “Household Financial Confidence Crashes”
We continue to release the data from our household surveys to end November 2019. Today we look at our Household Financial Confidence Index, which examines how households are feeling about their financial status, relative to a year ago. The index dropped again to 83.5, which is a new low in the series, and well below … Continue reading “Household Financial Confidence Slides [Again]”
We have released two videos today which summarise our latest household research. Note at the 3 min mark I misspoke on the stress data – should be “shows a further 7,000 household fell into stress taking the total to more than 1.07 million households or 32.2%”
The bad news keeps coming, with the latest DFA Household Financial Confidence Index for October at the lowest ever of 83.7. This continues the trends of recent months, since dropping through the neutral 100 score in June 2017. The falls were widespread across our property segments, with investors still way down, under the pressure from … Continue reading “Household Financial Confidence Erodes Some More”
Our September surveys show households remain in a careful state given the latest local and international economic news.
In our latest release to September 2019, the DFA Household Financial Confidence Index fell again, having move sideways more recently. In essence households are simply reflecting that rate cuts, a lower dollar and the international bad news from Trump’s Trade Wars, Brexit and Hong Kong are all making them more concerned, and less willing or … Continue reading “Household Financial Confidence Crushed Some More”
We discuss the results from our latest surveys.
Digital Finance Analytics has released the latest in our series of the Household Financial Confidence Index to end of August 2019. The reading this month was just a little higher at 85.45 (85.43 last month), but still well below the 87.69 back in 2015, which was the previous low, and significantly below the neutral setting. … Continue reading “Household Financial Confidence Firms A Tad”
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