Czech Business Confidence Hits Over 3-Year High

2025-08-25 07:12 By Joshua Ferrer 1 min. read

The business confidence indicator in the Czech Republic climbed by 2.7 percentage points to 101.5 in August 2025, up from 98.8 in the previous month.

This marked the highest reading since June 2022, as sentiment improved in almost all sectors, including selected services (107.9 vs 102 in July), construction (122.4 vs 121.2), and trade (98.4 vs 97.3).

Meanwhile, the industry sectors remained unchanged (at 93.5).

"The favorable month-on-month development of business confidence in the economy is mainly due to the improving situation in selected service sectors, where expected demand increased significantly month-on-month, especially in the financial sector.

The confidence indicator in services thus reached its highest level since April 2008," according to Jirí Obst, head of the CZSO's business cycle surveys department.



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