{"id":482541,"date":"2026-02-15T23:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482541\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:42:07","slug":"anz-anticipates-year-of-the-horse-spending-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482541\/","title":{"rendered":"ANZ anticipates Year of the Horse spending surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Celebrations start from Lunar New Year\u2019s Eve this Monday, 16 February, before finishing up on 3 March. This year is expected to eclipse last year\u2019s celebrations, when customer spending rose by 4.1%.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Since 2023, household cleaning and repair services have experienced an average annual growth rate of 12.5%,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">ANZ acting managing director retail products Kate Britton says that the year-on-year rise in Lunar New Year spending reflects the increasing scale of celebrations across Australia.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLunar New Year is a meaningful time for many, and we\u2019re glad to play a small part in supporting customers as they mark the occasion in their own ways,\u201d Britton said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ron Lim, owner of West Lake restaurant in Melbourne\u2019s Chinatown, said the 15-day festival \u201cgets bigger and better for us every year\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrations start from Lunar New Year\u2019s Eve this Monday, 16 February, before finishing up on 3 March. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5629,64,63,9566,44,5939],"class_list":{"0":"post-482541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-anz","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-consumer-confidence","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-spending"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482541","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=482541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}