Released late yesterday, the Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence poll for April shows:
Consumer Confidence rising to 123.2pts
- up 13.2pts from the April survey a year ago
At 0030GMT we get Westpac Consumer Confidence for April (currently 110.5, after a 2% rise last month). The market will be watching the Westpac release for a sign of how consumers are behaving, continued strength here argues for rates on hold in Australia.