United Kingdom Small Business Sentiment

Small Business Sentiment in the United Kingdom increased to -13 in the second quarter of 2019 from -31 in the first quarter of 2019. Small Business Sentiment in the United Kingdom averaged -4.27 from 1978 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 40 in the second quarter of 1983 and a record low of -69 in the third quarter of 1980.

Small Business Sentiment in the United Kingdom is expected to be -22.00 by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Small Business Sentiment in the United Kingdom to stand at -16.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the United Kingdom Small Business Sentiment is projected to trend around 5.00 in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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United Kingdom Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	-32.00	-13.00	55.00	-75.00	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	48.00	49.40	61.50	34.40		[+]
Services PMI	50.20	51.00	62.50	40.10	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	0.90	-1.10	22.70	-11.90	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	1.40	-2.90	9.90	-8.00	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	0.00	-1.00	19.60	-16.90	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	80.70	81.30	85.20	38.00	percent	[+]
New Orders	11975.00	10747.00	25109.00	9381.00	GBP Million	[+]
Factory Orders	-34.00	-15.00	21.00	-79.00	Net Balance	[+]
Changes in Inventories	5711.00	4241.00	11295.00	-11441.00	GBP Million	[+]
Bankruptcies	4188.00	4725.00	6509.00	924.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	115312.00	112291.00	115312.00	1024.00	GBP Million	[+]
Zew Economic Sentiment Index	-62.90	-63.70	61.00	-77.20		[+]
Car Production	116035.00	70971.00	185157.00	43773.00	Units	[+]
Car Registrations	223421.00	183724.00	562337.00	33051.00		[+]
Small Business Sentiment	-13.00	-31.00	40.00	-69.00		[+]
Internet Speed	16920.86	16337.23	16920.86	3085.89	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	27493519.00	26782989.00	27493519.00	13305856.00	IP	[+]
Leading Economic Index	0.30	0.40	1.90	-2.10	percent	[+]
Private Investment	0.40	-0.90	63.70	-33.70	percent	[+]
Mining Production	4.00	-0.70	854.60	-90.50	percent	[+]
Steel Production	650.00	644.00	2848.00	131.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Competitiveness Index	81.99	82.11	82.11	5.18	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	8.00	6.00	13.00	2.00		[+]
Composite Pmi	49.70	50.90	61.80	47.60		[+]
Crude Oil Rigs	15.00	15.00	32.00	3.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	9.00	7.00	11.00	5.00		[+]
Electricity Production	26136.00	28662.00	38520.00	16152.00	Gigawatt-hour	[+]
Corruption Index	80.00	82.00	87.00	74.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	11.00	8.00	20.00	8.00		[+]

United Kingdom Small Business Sentiment

In the United Kingdom, the Small Business Sentiment measures measures the expectations of business conditions for companies with up to 199 employees. The Questionnaire accesses the overall sentiment regarding general and export business situation, investment, capacity, order books, employment, output, stocks, prices competitiveness regarding domestic, EU and non-EU markets and innovation and training. For each assessment is computed a sub-index as the percentage of positive answers minus the percentage of negative answers. The composite index is then computed as the weighted average of the sub-indices. An Optimism Index of +100 indicates that all survey respondents are much more confident about future prospects, while -100 suggests that all survey respondents are much less confident about future prospects. An index level of 0 indicates neutrality. This page provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom Small Business Sentiment - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United Kingdom Small Business Sentiment - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on July of 2019.