Business Confidence in Ireland decreased to -4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 from 1 percent in the third quarter of 2018. Business Confidence in Ireland averaged 17.94 percent from 2011 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 50 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014 and a record low of -24 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Business Confidence in Ireland is expected to be -12.00 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Business Confidence in Ireland to stand at -12.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Ireland Business Confidence is projected to trend around 5.00 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Ireland Business Last Previous Highest Lowest Unit
Business Confidence -4.00 1.00 50.00 -24.00 percent [+]
Manufacturing PMI 50.40 52.50 59.10 48.00 [+]
Services PMI 57.00 54.70 64.00 48.30 Index Points [+]
Industrial Production 7.50 19.00 60.00 -19.10 percent [+]
Industrial Production Mom 3.70 1.60 33.00 -24.00 percent [+]
Manufacturing Production 7.10 19.30 85.90 -20.00 percent [+]
Changes in Inventories -48.00 -246.00 3963.00 -944.00 EUR Million [+]
Car Registrations 9126.00 13794.00 32961.00 474.00 [+]
Internet Speed 15614.31 15285.23 16960.56 2269.39 KBps [+]
IP Addresses 1663376.00 1600356.00 1719799.00 775588.00 IP [+]
Competitiveness Index 75.68 75.96 75.96 4.74 Points [+]
Competitiveness Rank 23.00 23.00 29.00 22.00 [+]
Ease of Doing Business 23.00 17.00 23.00 7.00 [+]
Electricity Production 2402.00 2413.00 2820.00 1747.00 Gigawatt-hour [+]
Corruption Index 73.00 74.00 85.70 69.00 Points [+]
Corruption Rank 18.00 19.00 25.00 11.00 [+]


Ireland Business Confidence

The ISME Quarterly Trends Survey measures the level of optimism that people who run small and medium companies in Ireland have about the performance of the economy and how they feel about their organizations’ prospects. The survey is based on responses from around 1000 SME owner managers across all sectors of the economy and is presented as a balance of sentiment for twelve indicators including: business expectations and environment, profitability, employment, sales, investment, exports and economic uncertainty. The result is a simple balance between positive and negative answers. This page provides the latest reported value for - Ireland Business Confidence - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Ireland Business Confidence - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on June of 2019.

Actual Previous Highest Lowest Dates Unit Frequency
-4.00 1.00 50.00 -24.00 2011 - 2018 percent Quarterly




Country Last Previous
Australia 7.00 May/19
Brazil 56.90 Jun/19
Canada 55.90 May/19
China 49.40 May/19
Euro Area 0.30 May/19
France 104.00 May/19
Germany 97.40 Jun/19
India 113.50 Jun/19
Indonesia 102.10 Mar/19
Italy 102.00 May/19
Japan 12.00 Mar/19
Mexico 52.40 May/19
Netherlands 4.70 May/19
Russia -1.00 May/19
Saudi Arabia 3.00 Jun/16
Singapore 1.00 Mar/19
South Africa 28.00 Jun/19
South Korea 76.00 May/19
Spain -3.30 May/19
Switzerland 94.40 May/19
Turkey 102.50 Jun/19
United Kingdom -13.00 Jun/19
United States 52.10 May/19


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