Small uptick in consumer confidence

The third quarter Survey of  Consumer Confidence shows Jamaicans have begun a very cautious and small increase in their purchase plans.
    
However, large discretionary consumer purchases will remain contained by slow income growth and rising prices. The survey showed that home buying plans were unchanged from the last quarter and barely above the all time low of  five percent.
 
Fourteen per cent of  those surveyed planned to purchase a vehicle up from last quarter's all-time low of  10 per cent while vacation intentions were expressed by 27 per cent versus 22 per cent in the previous three months.