Reasons for business capital expenditure in Australia 2020, by influencing factor

In November 2020, 29 percent of businesses in Australia indicted that they invested in capital expenditure due to future economic uncertainty. While this was the most common reason for capital expenditure in both August and November, significantly more businesses were undertaking capital expenditure in August, at the height of Australia's coronavirus second wave.

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