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Consumer vulnerability remains at low levels — December 2011

Quantec's Consumer Vulnerability Index (CVI) has recorded a stable pattern since the fourth quarter of 2010 at a level of 47 points. After reaching dangerously high levels during 2008, the the index had, by the end of 2009, dropped to around one standard deviation above its median value of the past three decades. During 2010 and 2011, the index showed some considerable improvement, dropping below its median value. Since reaching a high of 76 index points in the fourth quarter of 2008, there was a 38% decline in consumer vulnerability up to the third quarter of 2011. more...