Australia Small Business Sentiment

Small Business Sentiment in Australia increased to -1.12 in the fourth quarter of 2018 from -4.01 in the third quarter of 2018. Small Business Sentiment in Australia averaged 1.40 from 2006 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 18.71 in the first quarter of 2007 and a record low of -21.10 in the fourth quarter of 2008.

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Australia Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	4.00	3.00	21.00	-30.00	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	52.50	50.00	62.50	29.47		[+]
Services PMI	44.30	52.10	63.00	32.50	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	2.80	4.30	12.60	-7.60	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	-0.80	0.70	5.10	-7.00	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	-0.70	2.10	8.60	-11.80	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	81.45	81.97	84.62	78.24	percent	[+]
New Orders	34.00	31.00	49.00	-37.00	Index Points	[+]
Changes in Inventories	47.00	1223.00	4159.00	-3845.00	AUD Million	[+]
Bankruptcies	564.00	705.00	1123.00	217.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	90221.00	88576.00	90221.00	12032.00	AUD Million	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	87528.00	93860.00	130300.00	48099.00		[+]
Car Registrations	14078.61	13815.11	14078.61	3990.94	Thousand	[+]
Leading Economic Index	-0.22	-0.09	0.54	-1.10	percent	[+]
Small Business Sentiment	-1.12	-4.01	18.71	-21.10		[+]
Internet Speed	11063.10	10098.33	11063.10	1922.87	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	9859878.00	9310525.00	13859005.00	5227461.00	IP	[+]
Private Investment	-0.50	-0.90	15.60	-8.40	percent	[+]
Mining Production	6.10	6.30	25.20	-16.90	percent	[+]
Steel Production	449.34	420.47	819.00	238.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Corruption Index	77.00	77.00	88.60	77.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	13.00	13.00	13.00	7.00		[+]
Competitiveness Index	78.85	78.17	78.85	5.08	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	14.00	15.00	22.00	14.00		[+]
Composite Pmi	51.50	52.40	58.30	51.50	Index Points	[+]
Business Inventories	0.00	0.70	2.80	-2.80	percent	[+]
Ease of Doing Business	18.00	14.00	18.00	9.00		[+]

The NAB quarterly survey of business confidence measures the expectations of business conditions for the next 3 months among small firms with an annual turnover of AUD 2-3 Million. The survey is a simple average of trading, profitability and employment indices, reported by respondents for their company. The indices are calculated by taking the difference between the percentage of respondents nominating good or very good, or a rise and those nominating poor or very poor, or a fall. This page provides the latest reported value for - Australia Small Business Sentiment - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Australia Small Business Sentiment - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on February of 2019.