Sentences with phrase «of business confidence»

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

This is not surprising given the relatively healthy profit situation, the high level of business confidence and the expected growth in spending.

But one measure of business confidence improved in October, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

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.

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 Roy Morgan research of business confidence released on Thursday showed a sharp drop in December from post-election highs, especially among small businesses.

This is the harm that resulted from massive loss of business confidence reverberating across national economies and markets.

As the number of firms announcing redundancy consultations this week continued to rise — with news of widespread cuts at Berwin Leighton Paisner — new research from Legal Week has found a surprising degree of business confidence among partners in UK law firms.

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.

The outlook for business investment is positive, given the ready access to internal and external funding, the high levels of capacity utilisation and the high level of business confidence.

The Commerce Department also said orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft - seen as a measure of business confidence and spending plans — edged up 0.1 percent instead of the 0.5 percent drop reported last month.

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).

Industrial production and exports have risen in recent months and most measures of business confidence are considerably firmer than earlier in the year (Graph 8).

Measures of business confidence have risen steadily since mid 2003 to be back around more normal levels, and concurrently there has been a slight rise in the trend for industrial production.