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Business confidence firms up again in February
In February, the economic situation has improved in business-related services. The recovery is attributable to a more positive assessment of the outlook for general market demand and firms’ own activity, while appraisals of current activity are gloomier. In the building industry, company managers are painting a clearly more favourable picture in terms of total order books, as well as forecasts for their own business activity. The strengthening of confidence in the trade sector is based on an improvement in prospects for employment and demand, while forecasts for orders placed with suppliers have contracted ... (full story)