D&B business expectations deteriorate

David Llewellyn-Smith

Tuesday 7 July 2015

From the Dun and Bradstreet business expectations index this month. Confidence hit a wall:

Sales fell further:

Profits eased some more:

Employment was hit hard:

Capex held up:

Prices tanked:

Not much cheer there. Full report.

About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.