SMEs ain’t booming

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Via Banking Day:

Lousy payments volumes in February and January may put a dampener around relief at the 3.1 per cent rise in GDP in Australia over the December 2020 quarter, which dangled the prospect of achieving the hoped for ‘V-shape recovery’.

While housing prices and consumer and business confidence echo the recovery story, research into the SME sector from Judo Bank finds more than a third of businesses may be ready to throw in the towel.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.