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The latest edition of the DFA Household Finance Confidence Index (FCI) is released today, using data from our household surveys up to the end of November 2015. The index moved up a little, from 90.73 to 91.46, but still below the neutral setting of 100. So overall households remain cautious about their financial state in … Continue reading “DFA Household Finance Security Index Lifts – For Some”
The latest edition of the DFA Household Finance Confidence Index for October 2015 is released today, and shows a noticeable uptick compared with last month. The current index stands at 90.7 compared with 87.7 in September, still below the long-term neutral position, but on the improve. Taken with the stronger employment data, released today by … Continue reading “Household Financial Confidence On The Up”
The negative household confidence sentiment continued in September according to the latest results from our household surveys, released today. The overall score was 87.73, compared with 87.69 last month. These are levels well below 100 which is a neutral result, and still in the lowest region since 2012 when the DFA FCI started. The instability … Continue reading “DFA Household Finance Confidence Index Languishes In September”
Today we published the latest DFA Household Finance Confidence index (FCI), which showed a further fall. This video blog discusses some of the findings, and considers some of the issues which explains the results, and what may change them. You can read about how we assemble the index here, and past results here.
The latest edition of DFA’s Household Finance Confidence Index to end August is released today, and it shows a significant fall. With a score of 87.69 (down from 91.1 in July), it is the lowest since the index started, and is well below its neutral setting, which was crossed in April 2014. Recent stock market … Continue reading “Latest DFA Survey Shows Household Finance Confidence Falls”
We released the latest DFA Household Finance Confidence today, incorporating results from our household surveys to end July. The overall index recovered a little from its all time low last month, rising to 91. This is still below a neutral setting. The index has been below water since April 2014. This month we pulled out … Continue reading “DFA Household Finance Confidence Index For July 2015 Shows Investors Have It”
Household confidence in coping with a financial emergency (loss of income) fell 11% in the six months to June 2015, largely contributing to a 6% fall in overall household financial comfort, according to ME’s latest Household Financial Comfort Report. The findings are similar to DFA’s Household Finance Confidence Index, which fell to a new low … Continue reading “Households Feeling Financial Strain”
The latest edition of the DFA Household Finance Confidence Index was released today. The latest data to end June shows there was a fall over the last month, the score moved from 94.6 to 89.0, the lowest score since the index started in 2012. A number of factors pressed in on households, including the international … Continue reading “DFA Household Finance Confidence Index Falls In June To New Low”
The latest edition of the DFA Household Finance Confidence Index was released today. The latest data to end May shows there was an improvement over the last month, partly in response to the budget and the RBA rate cut, but the overall score is still well below a neutral setting. The score moved from 91.87 … Continue reading “DFA Household Finance Confidence Index Up A Bit In May”
The latest DFA Household Finance Confidence Index (FCI) to end April 2015, showed a further slight fall, from 91.97 in March to 91.87 in April, and continues to track below the long term neutral position. The results are derived from our household surveys, averaged across Australia. We have 26,000 households in our sample at any … Continue reading “DFA Household Finance Confidence Index Falls Again In April”