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French business confidence, which had briefly flowered, wilted as well; and Italian firms have sunk further into gloom.

Rising German business confidence gave a hint this week that this view is not completely daft.

Business confidence surveys have also improved, with Germany's ZEW index hitting its highest level in two years.

It would wallop global investor and business confidence at a time when both are scarce.

And when business confidence drops, would-be entrepreneurs think twice before putting their billion-yuan dreams into action.

The latest survey from Ifo, a Munich economic-research institute, shows that business confidence remains close to a 15-year high.

This week there was a fresh dip in the Ifo business confidence index and statistics showed that investment dived in the second quarter.

If consumer and business confidence does not fizzle, growth in emerging economies is likely to continue its upward trend.

But such a burst of private investment requires a much higher level of business confidence than exists today.

In Europe, major economies showed signs of flagging output and falling business confidence, but smaller countries also suffered acutely.

The recent signs of a plunge in European business confidence in early June will not lighten the mood.

A recent survey has shown that business confidence in Western Australia is at a ten-year low.

The business-confidence index published by Ifo, a Munich research institute, is at its highest since unification in 1990.

Therefore, I would like to ask about such restrictions would affect business confidence in the footwear industry in China?

Business confidence is at its highest since the Ifo institute began tracking it 20 years ago.

Business confidence in Germany has risen for a second consecutive month, according to Ifo, a Munich-based research institute.

That shift was probably in response to a downturn in the results of purchasing managers' surveys of business confidence.

Business confidence has fallen sharply across the euro zone, according to a monthly European Commission survey published on July 30th.

These bear witness to the growth of Chang-sheng, an old comrade lifeful with face-to-business confidence and shaken'stevens.

Posting its biggest-ever rise, ICAEW's Business Confidence Monitor has moved to positive territory for the first time in two years.

An index of business confidence published by Ifo, a Munich research firm, jumped to a three-year high in October.

Small-business confidence declined in March for a second month.

Recent data releases in April and early May for factory orders, business confidence and inventory to shipments ratios are turning stronger.

Shoring up business confidence is the cheapest form of stimulus.

German IFO business confidence, SNB quarterly bulletin, US durable goods orders, GDP figures, and BOE's King's speech form today's calendar.

Financial markets are buoyant, business confidence is rising and global growth seems increasingly robust.

Using submissions from before and after that fateful day, it shows just how dramatically business confidence has worsened.

Some G20 officials worry that business confidence might soon plummet as it did in late 2008, bringing the world economy to a standstill.

Germany's Ifo index of business confidence fell again this week for the fourth consecutive month, to a 19-month low.

On the contrary, supersized deficits are denting business confidence, not least by implying higher future taxes.

Business confidence in Germany fell to its lowest level in three years, according to the latest Ifo survey, released on August 26th.

Growth has slowed in the previously booming Indian and Chinese markets, with business confidence slipping fast.

But British business confidence plunged, and it has not recovered.

In Germany the Ifo index, a gauge of business confidence, has sunk to a five-year trough.

Business confidence is also improving with stronger readings for US manufacturing and services business surveys.

Optimism about Asia's fast growing economies helped shore up business confidence elsewhere in Asia.

That makes the recent increase in activity surprising, since business confidence has been weak, he says.

Rising sales and increased business confidence should also lead firms to expand payrolls.

Orders in the euro zone was reduced gradually weakening business confidence on the one hand, this trend is likely to lead to redundancies .

On the other side, we've been assured that spending cuts would do wonders for business confidence.

Business confidence and therefore strong economy in based on national, regional and global stability and predictability.

German business confidence is soaring while U. S. consumer sentiment sinks.

The stock market, a barometer of business confidence, has plummeted 20 percent in the six weeks since President Obama took office.

Business confidence in Germany last month reached its highest in three years.

German business confidence is at a 15-year low.

Meanwhile, in the real economy the rise in business confidence shows every sign of strengthening and broadening out.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry's latest survey shows that business confidence has slumped to levels last seen in 2003.

French business confidence has also risen and the mood in Italy has deteriorated only marginally, according to separate surveys.

It also is suppressing consumer and business confidence and the export outlook.

The summit marked a turning-point in investor and business confidence.

Business confidence has turned down sharply in all of the three biggest economies in the euro area: Germany, France and Italy.

How the world economy fares in 2012 will depend heavily on business confidence.

In contrast, German business confidence has risen to a 15-year high.

German business confidence fell to a 15-year low in the latest poll carried out by ZEW, a research centre in Mannheim.

This despair is also affecting business confidence.

Small business' confidence remains today at recession levels, according to an NFIB June survey (PDF, 486KB).

Perky business confidence, especially in Germany, helped drive the euro up, briefly over $1. 60 in April.

Credit flows to the private sector were choked off at the same time as consumer and business confidence collapsed.

In September 2008, when a similar survey was last taken, business confidence was -37. 1 percentage points.

Business confidence has picked up, as has the Paris bourse.

It is important to significantly increase the programme's size, so as to underpin business confidence.

Business confidence in the durability of the expansion, for example, will help determine employers' willingness to hire.

Despite nagging concerns about the labour market, business confidence in China is high.

Its index of business confidence rose for the first time in seven months.

Business confidence is on the up.

Many people seem to think so. Consumer and business confidence is rising in most parts of the world;

Bullish on global business confidence; bearish on euro-area debt crisis

AmCham annual business confidence survey