A-League Premiers Sydney FC have topped the Roy Morgan A-League supporter ladder for 2018 with 613,000 supporters an increase of 11.7% over a year ago following the clubs back-to-back wins as A-League Premiers in 2016/17 and 2017/18. Defending A-League Grand Final Champions Melbourne Victory were second with 526,000 supporters, down 8.7% on a year ago despite the club becoming the first to come from outside the top 2 sides during the A-League finals to win the Grand Final. 

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New research from Roy Morgan using a formula that takes into account household income, costs, and mortgage repayments classifies 20.8% (949,000) of mortgage holders as in ‘mortgage stress’. Despite this being a marginal improvement from 12 months ago when it was 21.3% (974,000), the current level remains high and would present difficulties if there were an increase in mortgage rates an increase in costs or an increase in unemployment.

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New results from Roy Morgan shows that bank customer satisfaction has declined from 81.2% in the six months to January 2018, prior to the Finance Royal Commission, down to 78.5% in the six months to September 2018. This decline of 2.7% points was mainly due to a drop in satisfaction of 3.6% points for the big four banks, compared to an overall decline of only 0.7% points for all other banks. Despite lower satisfaction with banks since the Royal Commission, it is worth noting that the clear majority of customers are still satisfied with their bank at levels well above the long term average and much higher than the 58.7% recorded in 2001, before the improving trend.

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New research from Roy Morgan shows that the Bay of Islands/ Northland (29.1%) at the northern end of the North Island and around 200km north of New Zealand’s largest city of Auckland is the leading domestic destination New Zealanders would like to visit in the next two years just ahead of South Island holiday town Queenstown
(27.8%). Other popular destinations on the North Island include Coromandel (23.8%), Wellington (22.3%), Greater Auckland (17%) and Bay of Plenty (16.6%) while other popular South Island destinations include Nelson (21.8%), Canterbury/Christchurch (18.7%) and Wanaka (16.9%).

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ANZ-Roy Morgan Australian Consumer Confidence rose by 1.9% last week, bringing the index to its highest level since late July. Households’ perception of current financial conditions rose 3.3% last week, while sentiment regarding the future financial situation rose by 0.9%. Sentiment towards current economic conditions fell by 1.9%, while future economic conditions jumped by 3.3%. Both these indices fell last week.

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Roy Morgan Indonesian Consumer Confidence is up 2.2pts to 160.4 in September 2018 and is now at its highest since November 2014 (161.4). Consumer Confidence is now 10pts higher than a year ago in September 2017 (150.4) and 24.7pts above the long-run average (2005-2018) of 135.7. The strong year-on-year increase in Indonesian Consumer Confidence has been driven by large increases in the capital region of Jakarta & West Java, East Java, Bali and Kalimantan while Consumer Confidence fell slightly in Central Java & Yogyarkata and fell in Sulawesi although most interviewing was completed before the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the island late in September.

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