Sentences with phrase «business confidence indicators»

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«The decline in confidence was fueled by a somewhat less optimistic outlook for business and job prospects in the coming months,» Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board, said in a statement.

Skeptics feel that these figures are mostly repercussions of a combination of the ECB's quantitative easing program and cheap oil, but positive indicators like rebounding business and consumer confidence show clear signs of economic improvement.

Minor changes are evident in the key indicators used to compute the USG Corporation + U.S. Chamber of Commerce Commercial Construction Index (CCI)-- backlog levels, new business opportunities and revenue expectations — but contractor beliefs about revenue forecasts are the only driver of confidence that rose this quarter.

In addition, the Glassdoor Employment Confidence Survey monitors four key indicators of employee confidence each quarter for the past six years: job market optimism / re-hire probability, job security sentiment, salary expectations and business outlookConfidence Survey monitors four key indicators of employee confidence each quarter for the past six years: job market optimism / re-hire probability, job security sentiment, salary expectations and business outlookconfidence each quarter for the past six years: job market optimism / re-hire probability, job security sentiment, salary expectations and business outlook optimism.

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The Index looks at the results of three leading indicators to gauge confidence in the commercial construction industry — backlog levels, new business opportunities and revenue forecasts — generating a composite index on a scale of 0 to 100 that serves as an indicator of health for the contractor segment on a quarterly basis.

A score of 100 would indicate maximum improvements across the SME Health Check Index's eight indicators (business costs, capacity, employment, GDP, lending to SMEs, net business creation, revenue and SME business confidence), down 48 per cent since 2014 and the fifth consecutive quarterly fall The SME Health Check Index fell from 48.4 in the third quarter of 2017 to 42.0 in Q4 2017, suggesting a worsening business and macroeconomic environment since the EU Referendum in June 2016 and the ongoing Brexit negotiations.

Looking ahead, various surveys show that business confidence and most indicators of expected activity are around or above long - run average levels.

In particular, indicators of business confidence remain above long - run levels, overall profitability remains strong, and business investment is expected to continue to grow, albeit more slowly than in the past two years.

The decline in this measure of business confidence has, however, been somewhat more marked than the declines in indicators of firms» employment and capital expenditure plans recorded in the same survey (Graph 17).

KANSAS CITY, Mo. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ceaseless uncertainty in Washington and mixed signals from economic indicators have not dampened the outlook of new business owners, who express rising confidence in their prospects in the third - quarter 2013 Kauffman / LegalZoom Startup Confideconfidence in their prospects in the third - quarter 2013 Kauffman / LegalZoom Startup ConfidenceConfidence Index.

Adeosun explained that the policy was expected to «Increase exposure of financial or financial related crimes; support the fight against financial crimes and corruption; improved level of public confidence in public entities; enhance transparency and accountability in the management of public funds; improve Nigeria's Open Government Ranking and Ease of Doing Business Indicators; and recover public funds that can be deployed to finance Nigeria's infrastructure deficit.»

While issues remain in certain markets, the Eurozone for example, business indicators across the UK, North America and Asia - Pacific show confidence is continuing to grow in those markets.

Real estate is big business, affecting 20 percent of the gross national product, and it is one of the leading economic indicators, along with job data and consumer confidence indexes.