Sentences with phrase «business confidence survey»

Members expect buyer and seller traffic to increase over the next six months, NAR's May business confidence survey shows.

Single - family home sales are expected to cool slightly over the next six months, NAR's June business confidence survey shows.

Higher interest rates and the holiday season are holding down practitioners» confidence in the home sales market, according to NAR's October business confidence survey.

Rising interest rates have somewhat diminished practitioners» confidence in the home sales market, according to NAR's July business confidence survey, despite strong existing - home sales reports.

Legal Week's quarterly business confidence survey, which canvasses senior lawyers on their outlook for the year ahead, found 95 % of partners predicting revenues at their own firm to grow over the next 12 months, with 80 % of respondents expecting revenue to grow across the top 50 as a whole.

Legal Week's quarterly business confidence survey found that nine out of 10 partners (90 %) expect revenues at their own firm to grow over the next 12 months, with 88 % expecting revenues across the top 50 as a whole to increase.

Legal Week's latest business confidence survey found 28 % of respondents forecasting static revenues for 2013 — almost double the proportion making the same prediction in July, when the survey was last conducted — while a further 7.5 % expect revenues at their firm to drop next year.

Asia and litigation tipped as growth targets in Legal Week business confidence survey.

Legal Week's quarterly business confidence survey, which canvasses senior lawyers on their outlook for the year ahead, found that nearly three - quarters (74 %) of partners expect revenues at their own firm to grow over the next 12 months, with more than four in five (83 %) expecting revenues across the top 50 as a whole to increase.

On Monday, for example, the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) released its quarterly business confidence survey on Monday and the reading dropped from 18 index points to 5, which is the weakest in six quarters.

These are the findings of the North Country Chamber of Commerce's annual business confidence survey, announced last week.

, According to the ANZ Business Confidence survey, confidence eased in April, with a net 23.4 % of businesses being pessimistic about the year ahead, down 3 points from March, with all sectors in the red.

HOUSTON --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Although small business owners are slowly proceeding with growth plans in 2011, 40 percent are now delaying their expectations of an economic rebound to the first quarter of 2012 or later, according to the most recent Business Confidence Survey released today by Insperity, Inc. (NYSE: NSP), a leading provider of human resources and business performance solutions to America's best businesses.

In the Conference Board's Index of Business Confidence survey, business leaders cited weak market demand, government policies, a shortage of qualified staff, and the depreciation of the Canadian dollar (which increases the cost of imported technology and machinery) as reasons for not investing.

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TRAVEL group Globetrotter doesn't necessarily share the sentiments of a recent survey showing business confidence at its lowest level since the GFC, and has launched a new business unit targeting empl

Millennial small business owners have more confidence in their retirement savings than baby boomers, according to our survey, possibly because millennial owners started their business at a younger age on average (26 vs. 43 years old), allowing more time for them to grow their businesses» profit margins and create comfortable retirement plans.

The central bank also employs confidence surveys to gauge how businesses are feeling about the economy.

The mining sector has reached a new five - year low, with confidence levels likely to take years to recover, according to industry leaders surveyed in the latest Mining Business Outlook report.

TRAVEL group Globetrotter doesn't necessarily share the sentiments of a recent survey showing business confidence at its lowest level since the GFC, and has launched a new business unit targeting employee incentives in the workplace.

Smaller players are looking forward with renewed confidence, according to the 2014 Hiscox DNA small business survey, which found that 51 % of smaller businesses in the U.S. are feeling good about the year ahead and want to make sure their voices are heard this week.

These are all reasons why just about every survey of small - business owners taken during the past 30 days have expressed optimism, confidence and plans for future growth and hiring.

More than 80 % of members of a U.S. business lobby in China say foreign companies are less welcome than in the past, a survey released on Wednesday showed, with most saying they have little confidence in China's vows to open its markets.

What's interesting here is that according to other metrics, the economy and job market have improved, and so too have other measures of confidence, including surveys of consumers, small businesses and homebuilders.

And Japan's latest Tankan Survey indicated further deterioration in business activity and confidence.

Small - business confidence has surged to record levels in 2018, with many small - business owners optimistic about recent tax reforms, according to the latest CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small Businessbusiness confidence has surged to record levels in 2018, with many small - business owners optimistic about recent tax reforms, according to the latest CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small Businessbusiness owners optimistic about recent tax reforms, according to the latest CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small BusinessBusiness Survey.

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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.

Survey measures of business confidence have lifted from the very low levels seen at the beginning of the year to be close to their long - run average.

Administered by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the Airline Business Confidence Index conducts a survey every 3 months to give a forward looking view of industry prospects.

Market confidence was also buoyed by a closely watched quarterly business survey — the Tankan, compiled by the Japanese central bank — which showed that corporate sentiment had improved significantly in the three months to September.

At the same time, a European Commission survey showed business confidence stabilized in April, suggesting the slowdown in the early part of the year was caused by temporary factors such as poor weather and strikes.

The December quarter ACCI Survey of Investor Confidence, which also covers the non-farm sector, reported a high level of current and expected business conditions.

The business environment also appears to have improved over recent quarters, with most business surveys reporting an improvement in business confidence and expected profitability.

In addition, most business surveys reported conditions that were at high levels throughout 2004, while consumer confidence has been close to record levels.

Surveys of consumer and business confidence are generally above long - run averages and unemployment is near its lowest level in almost 30 years.

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

Business confidence also strengthened in the June quarter according to the Tankan survey, and firms expect this trend to continue into the second half of the year.

Other evidence included a European Commission survey of economic sentiment among eurozone businesses and consumers, which climbed to its highest level since 2000, and a measure of French business confidence, which registered a 10 - year high.

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).

However, surveys suggest that business confidence remains at a high level, reflecting high corporate profitability.

The NAB survey of the non-farm sector, for example, reported that business conditions and confidence in the September quarter were at their highest levels since 1994.

The NAB survey suggests that business confidence remains above average, although it declined in the December quarter.

The December quarter AIG survey of manufacturing, the ACCI survey and the Sensis survey of small businesses also reported above - average levels of confidence for the period ahead (Graph 38).

According to a range of surveys, business confidence has now risen to levels consistent with well - above - average growth of the economy, with profits, sales and employment all reported to have increased strongly in the past few months.

Monetary and fiscal policy settings are highly expansionary; profits have picked up over the past six months; business inventories are at low levels, suggesting that production will need to accelerate to keep pace with demand; and surveys suggest that business confidence is rising.

The Olympian, March 17, 2009 Local confidence drops, surveys find: Consumers, business owners hope for economic rebound by Rolf Boone «Thurston County residents and business owners largely were pessimistic about the economy in the fourth quarter of 2008, although both groups remain hopeful that business conditions will improve in the next six months, two new surveys have found.»

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) latest «Voice of Small Business» Index — its quarterly survey of confidence among UK small business — Business» Index — its quarterly survey of confidence among UK small business — business — reveals:

In the latest survey of business confidence in the chemical and pharmaceutical sector, companies are generally optimistic about the future.

Two - thirds of business leaders surveyed ahead of today's conference said their level of confidence had dropped since August, while one - third were reviewing investment plans as a result.

«Business confidence clearly needs to rise before employment growth will pick up again, but at the moment the surveys suggest that companies remain worried about economic growth both at home and abroad and are generally erring towards cost - cutting rather than expansion,» Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, commented.