Confidence at a record high, with more optimists than pessimists in the Australian economy…

Net Confidence Index vs. GDP Growth

Proportion of respondents expecting the economy to grow minus those expecting the economy to slow.
Based on over 1300 interviews with senior business executives annually.
GDP data (seasonally adjusted) taken from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
na – no data collected.

…constrained by slower growth in China’s economy.

In Q1 of 2017, senior business executives were asked about the impact of ‘Brexit’ and the slowing growth of China to their business. Number of respondents are in brackets.