Budget bursts consumer sentiment bubble

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Bill Evans with the bad news for ScoMo:

• The Westpac-Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment fell 4.8% to 113.1 in May from 118.8 in April.

While a 4.8% fall is always going to attract attention we should put this result in perspective. It is still the second highest print for the Index since April 2010 and does follow an 11% rise in the Index over the previous three months.

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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.