Australia – National Australia Bank business confidence for October, 4
- prior was 5
Business conditions for October, 13 … highest since early 2008
- prior 1
- Stronger sales, profits and employment
- But improvement in conditions was broad based across measures of activity and by industry
- Profitability up 14 points to +15
- Employment up 7 points to +2
- Forward orders up to +4 (the rise in construction, is a positive sign for future growth)
- Outlook for capital spending +4 points to +9 (long-run average is +5)
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Preview is here: Australia – NAB business confidence data due for release today
note – the NAB survey for this is of 400 firms
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This is actually a very strong result. Although the ‘confidence’ dipped a point the jump in ‘conditions’ is the biggest on record (since the survey began in 1998).
- Confidence index was is still close to its 20 year average, but a low since August 2013 (& the lowest since the the election bounce)
- The conditions index has jumped above the 20 year average (4.4) … And it’s the conditions index that has a better correlation with growth
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AUD ticking higher on the data … and why not?
