Consumer confidence dived in the first quarter to its lowest level in over a year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported on Monday.

While still positive, the overall confidence index (CI) of 1.7 percent — measured as the number of households that replied in the affirmative minus those that said otherwise — was markedly lower than the 9.5 percent recorded three months earlier.

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