Istat, cala confidence the families, on business – LOOP.it

In September 2016, the consumer confidence worsens for second month in a row, going from 109,1 points to 108.7 for. The composite index of business confidence, instead, it detects the Istat recorded an increase from 99.5 points to 101, and stood on the level of last June. The improvement has spread to companies of all sectors from the retail trade. Among the components of the consumer confidence, personal and current decrease, while the economic climate and the future are back to grow. The reviews of the consumers regarding the economic situation of the Country recorded an improvement while expectations are confirmed in the drop-down for the fifth consecutive month. Both judgments on the trend of prices in the past 12 months and the expectations for the next 12 months recorded an increase. They also improve the expectations of unemployment.

Growth in wages and salaries August, by 0.6%, to a minimum – In August, the index of wages contract time remains unchanged compared with the previous month increases of 0.6% in relation to August 2015, staying with the pace, the lowest since the beginning of the historical series, in 1982. This is reported by Istat. Overall, in the first eight months of 2016, the hourly average is up 0.7% compared to the corresponding period of 2015. Among the macrosectors, August wages and salaries contractual hourly recorded a trend increase of 0.8% for employees in the private sector (0,4% in industry and 1.2% in private services) and a change nothing to those of the public administration, due to blockage of collective bargaining.

Consumers, to trust yet another negative figure – “Cala is still consumer confidence. And it could not be otherwise”. The claim Federconsumatori and Adusbef commenting on the statistics of Istat, where they read “the nth negative which adds to the long list of indicators is preceded by a minus sign, or many zero point”. “Create new job opportunities should be the priority of a Country where the youth unemployment rate is 39,2% and in the South it touches the peaks of 60-65%”, say the presidents of Federconsumatori and Adusbef, and Rosario Trefiletti and Elio Lannutti. “In this sense – they continue – we need to channel every resource, every penny, every effort: increasing the fight against tax evasion, the fight against waste and abuse, and resorting to the sale of a part of the resources of gold”.

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