3 Sep 2018

What are business confidence surveys and what do they mean?

From Afternoons, 1:20 pm on 3 September 2018

Business confidence has been in the news a lot recently, after falling to its lowest level since the Global Financial Crisis.

But what are these surveys? Who do they survey, and how, and what do they actually mean?

Cameron Bagrie was the chief economist at ANZ Bank for 11 years before starting up his own business, and he joins us to answer a few of these questions.

Business confidence is at its lowest point since the Global Financial Crisis

Business confidence is at its lowest point since the Global Financial Crisis Photo: ANZ Bank