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Belgium business confidence holds steady in June
In business-related services, the upswing in confidence was reflected in all components of the indicator, but especially in clearly more favourable activity expectations, which received a hard knock in May. In the manufacturing industry, substantially worse demand expectations and a more negative assessment of both total order books and stock levels were practically entirely offset by a strong upward revision in employment expectations. In the building industry, confidence dipped slightly for the second month in a row, this time due to a fall in all indicators, with the exception of more intensive use of available ... (full story)