- Prior -19.1
- Economic confidence 99.3 vs 99.8 expected
- Prior 99.7; revised to 99.6
- Industrial confidence -0.2 vs 0.2 expected
- Prior 0.5
- Services confidence 9.4 vs 10.3 expected
- Prior 9.5; revised to 9.4
The drop in economic sentiment owes to a setback in industrial confidence, owing to a drop decline in managers’ production expectations and to a slight deterioration in their assessments of the current level of overall order books. Meanwhile, the recovery in consumer confidence also comes to a halt after five months of improvement.
