The ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence Index fell 1.8 points in June. Households are dealing with a lot right now: incomes not keeping up with inflation, lifting interest rates, falling house and other asset prices, and ongoing COVID and general economic uncertainty. The good news: with the labour market so tight, job security is still looking good.
- Perceptions of current personal financial situations fell 5 points to -22%.
- A net 3% expect to be worse off this time next year, down 2 points. It’s very unusual for this series to be negative.
- Households continue to think it’s a bad time to buy a major household item with only 28% (up 7% points) saying it’s a ‘good time to buy a major household item’ compared to 49% (down 2% points) saying it’s a ‘bad time to buy’. These movements led to some improvement in the overall index in June with the net rating up 9 points to -21 but in an absolute sense this is extremely low and worrying for retailers.
- Perceptions regarding the next year’s economic outlook deteriorated to -47%. The five-year measure pared gains made in May, back at -5%.
- House price inflation expectations lifted from 1.1% to 1.4%. Still low.
- CPI inflation expectations lifted 0.5%pts to 5.6%, fully reversing last month’s decline.
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