Istat: in April loses altitude consumer confidence but improves that of companies – TGCOM

April 27, 2016 11:06

   

As for consumers, drop all indexes: one related to economic confidence slipped to 140.5 from 142.7, the 105 staff , 7 to 104.8, from 111.1 to 110 the current and future from 120.6 to 120.2. Worsen the feedback on the current economic situation of the country (the balance falls from -34 to -38), while expectations increase the favorable opinions, with the balance from 5 to 8. The judgments on prices during the past 12 months does not vary: the balance stood at -36; while expectations for the next 12 months express downward trends (to -33 from -30 the balance). Worse expectations on unemployment (the balance moved from 12 to 21).

For manufacturing enterprises improve production expectations (from 9 to 10) and worsen the opinions on orders (to -14 from -13 ), while assessments on inventories remain stable at 4. in construction improves both the opinions on orders and on construction plans and employment expectations (to -35 from -37 and -5 -7, respectively). In services improve the judgments and expectations for orders (from 0 to 12 and from 2 to 8, the respective balances) while worsening expectations on the Italian economy (2 of 7). In the retail trade it worsens both the balance of opinions on the current sales (1 to 5), is that relative to expectations on future sales (23 to 28); inventories remain stable (11).

Considering the numbers on manufacturing, the figure is the best of the past three months, but remains far below the 103.9 points recorded in December. Also on stocks, the figure of -14 is in line with 2016, but far from -11 in December. E ‘instead of encouraging data on production expectations, fell to 9 in February and March, from eleven points in December and January, and now back to 10 points. Looking at the production capacity, Istat noted that in the first quarter of 2016 the degree of capacity utilization fell to 75.8% (compared to 76.8% in the previous quarter).

Rises 29% instead of the share of operators that signals the presence of obstacles to productive activity: climbing is the share of firms reporting constraints of insufficient demand is the one that refers obstacles due to other reasons.