Tag: Confidence

Consumer confidence has strengthened following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision to cut the cash rate to a record low of 2.0 per cent.

The findings highlight relatively unchanged conditions of subdued confidence, which the NAB says points to a lack of movement towards “a sustained economic recovery developing”.

Roy Morgan Research’s Business Confidence February results have revealed a decline, despite the RBA’s move to lower the cash rate to 2.25 per cent.

Australia’s business confidence has suffered after a difficult Christmas period, according to the December quarter 2014 ACCI Survey of Investor Confidence.

Australia’s business confidence is at its highest level since January, according to the latest Business Confidence survey from Roy Morgan Research.

More Australian businesses are planning to hire in the coming year, according to this quarter’s Hudson Report: Employment Trends.

Small business satisfaction towards the federal government has risen to its highest level in nearly five years according to a new survey, with one third of respondents expecting their revenue to increase in 2014. The survey of 1,032 SME’s commissioned by accounting software provider MYOB shows that in March, nearly one quarter or 24 per […]

Half of SMEs are focused on simply getting through their workload with their sanity intact rather than increasing sales this festive season.

Confidence in the business outlook among CEOs in Australia and New Zealand is higher than it has been in three years.

Few would argue it’s not been a tough year for retail. Yet with the election firmly behind us, and on the cusp of the Christmas spending period, things are looking up. A new survey by Shop A Docket canvassed the opinions of 250 SMBs in the service and retail industries, and found a sense of […]