{"id":132739,"date":"2025-09-10T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132739\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:27:13","slug":"consumer-plods-on-macrobusiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132739\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer plods on &#8211; MacroBusiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Westpac credit card tracker is better but not much.<\/p>\n<p>During the second part of August, the Tracker Index increased by almost 1 point to close the month at 138.5, which is near the upper end of the range that has been in place since April.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-5.png\" width=\"1102\" height=\"534\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The quarterly increase remains slow. Base effects from weather and holiday interruptions earlier in the year are dampening the latest weekly read\u2019s 0.3% quarterly growth.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2-5.png\" width=\"1089\" height=\"541\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Westpac credit card tracker is better but not much. During the second part of August, the Tracker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-132739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}