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CEE business climate index upbeat, survey shows
( 10 / November / 2009 )
Business climate in central and eastern Europe improved markedly in the quarter to October, according to the Thomson Reuters&OeKB CEE Business Climate index released on Tuesday.
CEE REGION IV/2009 III/2009 IV/2008
(Survey done in) (OCT) (JULY) (OCT)
BUSINESS CLIMATE 10 -7 29
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 18 -24 -1
CURRENT BUSINESS SITUATION -3 -10 48
BUSINESS EXPECTATIONS 23 -3 12
INVESTMENT STOCKS 3 -9 17
BUSINESS CLIMATE BY COUNTRY IV/2009 III/2009 IV/2008
(Survey done in) (OCT) (JULY) (OCT)
POLAND 25 5 32
CZECH REPUBLIC 19 4 30
CROATIA 12 -7 29
SLOVAKIA 9 -2 34
BULGARIA 7 -5 36
RUSSIA 7 0 39
SERBIA MONTENEGRO 7 -4 30
ROMANIA 0 -7 40
HUNGARY -5 -28 12
UKRAINE -14 -20 35
Note: Surveyed companies have three options to answer: positive, neutral and negative. The index shows the balance of positive answers minus negative answers. A value above zero signals more positive than negative answers, a value below zero more negative than positive answers.
Thomson Reuters&OeKB Central European Business Climate Index is based on quarterly surveys of 400 international companies
with regional headquarters in Austria, which manage 1,400 affiliate companies in 19 countries in central and eastern Europe.
Source: Reuters