France Business Confidence 1976-2018 | Data | Chart | Calendar | Forecast

The French industrial sentiment indicator stood at 109 in May 2018, the same as in the previous month and beating market expectations of 108. The reading remained at its lowest level since last July, as the balance of opinion on past activity is back on track after having sharply dropped in April (10 vs 7 in April) while manufacturers were less optimistic about the general production prospects (15 vs 23). Meantime, the balance of opinion on personal production expectations increased (17 vs 15). At the same time, more industrialists than in April consider that their finished-goods inventories are above normal (10 from 5). Their opinion on overall order books is stable (at 1), that on export order books slightly dipped (0 from 1). As regards employment, the balance of opinion on expected workforce size rose slightly (4 vs 3) approaching its February and March level, its highest since June 2011. That on past workforce size slightly declined (2 from 4). Business Confidence in France averaged 100 Index Points from 1976 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 124 Index Points in June of 2000 and a record low of 67 Index Points in March of 2009.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-03-22	07:45 AM	Business Confidence	111	112	111	112
2018-04-24	06:45 AM	Business Confidence	109	110	110	111
2018-05-24	06:45 AM	Business Confidence	109	109	108	110
2018-06-21	06:45 AM	Business Confidence		109	108	111
2018-07-24	06:45 AM	Business Confidence				110
2018-08-23	06:45 AM	Business Confidence				109

France Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	109.00	109.00	124.00	67.00	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	54.40	53.80	58.80	42.70		[+]
Services PMI	54.30	57.40	62.90	40.20	Index Points	[+]
Composite Pmi	54.20	56.90	60.30	41.90	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	2.10	1.90	12.10	-19.30	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	-0.50	-0.40	4.00	-4.90	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	3.00	0.50	69.00	-27.10	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	85.20	85.70	90.30	71.40	percent	[+]
New Orders	0.20	0.90	26.00	-65.30	Index Points	[+]
Bankruptcies	290.00	325.00	811.00	183.00	Companies	[+]
Zew Economic Sentiment Index	-2.60	8.60	79.80	-63.90		[+]
Car Registrations	183954.00	175800.00	247003.00	99444.00		[+]
Internet Speed	10756.57	10015.55	10756.57	3070.86	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	29887339.00	27078127.00	29887339.00	14688459.00	IP	[+]
Mining Production	5.80	1.20	24.50	-27.00	percent	[+]
Steel Production	1398.45	1352.86	2466.00	643.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Changes In Inventories	3968.00	3736.00	8425.00	-5857.00	EUR Million	[+]
Competitiveness Index	5.18	5.20	5.21	5.05	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	22.00	21.00	23.00	15.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	31.00	29.00	38.00	26.00		[+]
Electricity Production	44930.00	55228.00	61424.00	31896.00	Gigawatt-hour	[+]
Corruption Index	70.00	69.00	75.00	63.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	23.00	23.00	26.00	18.00		[+]

France Business Confidence

In France, the Business Climate Indicator measures entrepreneurs’ sentiment about current business situation and expectation about business conditions. The survey covers business leaders of the main economic sectors. The indicator is calculated using factor analysis technique. The index is then calculated in a way to measure the current sentiment in relation to the historic index values of the period 1993-2011. A value over 110 indicates unusually high optimism and a value under 90 indicates unusually high pessimism. The value 100 indicates neutrality. This page provides the latest reported value for - France Business Confidence - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. France Business Confidence - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on June of 2018.

	Actual	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Dates	Unit	Frequency
	109.00	109.00	124.00	67.00	1976 - 2018	Index Points	Monthly	SA

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Country	Last		Previous	Highest	Lowest
Australia	6.00	May/18	11	21	-30	Index Points	Monthly
Brazil	55.50	May/18	56.7	68.5	35	Index Points	Monthly
Canada	62.50	May/18	71.5	75	36.1	Index Points	Monthly
China	51.90	May/18	51.4	59.2	38.8	Index Points	Monthly
Euro Area	1.45	May/18	1.39	1.64	-3.28	Index Points	Monthly
France	109.00	May/18	109	124	67	Index Points	Monthly
Germany	102.20	May/18	102	110	79.8	Index Points	Monthly
India	59.70	Dec/17	58.3	71.8	45.7	Index Points	Quarterly
Indonesia	106.28	Mar/18	111	122	95.12	Index Points	Quarterly
Italy	107.70	May/18	108	122	71.5	Index Points	Monthly
Japan	24.00	Mar/18	26	53	-58	Index Points	Quarterly
Mexico	49.50	May/18	50	58.1	33.7	Index Points	Monthly
Netherlands	9.80	May/18	8.2	10.9	-23.5	Index Points	Monthly
Russia	-2.00	May/18	-2	7	-20	Index Points	Monthly
South Korea	76.00	May/18	77	119	35	Index Points	Monthly
Spain	2.10	May/18	5.5	8.5	-39	Index Points	Monthly
Switzerland	100.00	May/18	103	122	67.8	Index Points	Monthly
Turkey	109.90	May/18	111	123	52	Index Points	Monthly
United Kingdom	-4.00	Jun/18	13	55	-75	Index Points	Quarterly
United States	58.70	May/18	57.3	77.5	29.4	Index Points	Monthly