Data via WPAC in Australia, their monthly survey of consumer sentiment hitting a one-year low.

  • Index at 104.1, still showing net optimism.

Widespread lockdowns impacting.

Wpac comments:

  • a significant further loss of confidence but better than might have been expected given virus developments
  • The virus situation locally is clearly troubling, but consumers appear reasonably confident that it will come back under control, and that once it does, the economy will see a return to robust growth

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