Moody's Economy.com Survey of Business Confidence

This Week's Survey

There has been little change in global business confidence since the beginning of this year. Sentiment remains consistent with only a modest global economic recovery. Businesses are upbeat when broadly assessing current conditions and the outlook through this summer, but remain stubbornly cautious in their assessment of sales strength, hiring and inventories. South Americans are the most upbeat and North Americans the most nervous. Confidence is strongest among financial and business services firms and weakest among those who work in real estate and government. Manufacturing firms are in between.
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About the Survey

The Moody's Economy.com Survey of Business Confidence is a weekly economic indicator that is released each Monday on Dismal Scientist (www.dismal.com), Moody's Economy.com's real-time global economic analysis service.

Each week Dismal Scientist surveys its subscribers—key decision makers and planners from a diverse array of companies worldwide that have unique insights into the performance and concerns of their respective companies—on current and future business conditions, plans, and concerns. Since its introduction in 2005, the Survey of Business Confidence has proved to be a unique and insightful indicator of the global economy across regions and industries.

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