 
Businesses paying bills more slowly
Average number of days that businesses paid their bills beyond contracted terms increased by two per cent in July compared with June. When compared with six months ago, the average payment beyond contracted terms has increased by 3.3 per cent, according to Experian's Latest Business Benchmark Report. |
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Global businesses favour investment over cost cutting to aid recovery
The boom in economic confidence in China continues, with 83 per cent of senior executives more confident now than at the beginning of the year, compared to just 29 per cent in the US, according to Eversheds. Says one in three businesses across the globe has made redundancies in the last twelve months, but the appetite for cost-cutting measures is declining. Businesses are looking to invest more in the next twelve months, with one in four senior executives committed to increasing staff numbers. |
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CEOs still cautious
Optimism among private company CEOs dips slightly in the face of regulatory, political, and economic uncertainty. Private companies with international operations remained slightly more optimistic about U.S. economic growth than their domestic-only counterparts. As for optimism about the global economy, international marketers' confidence dropped to 37 per cent, down 10 points from last quarter's 47 per cent but above last year's 30 per cent, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. |
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A third of graduates plan to go it alone in business
Next generation of entrepreneurs is already open for business with nearly a quarter of students surveyed now running or about to launch their own enterprise. Almost one in three say a shortage of jobs has made them consider working for themselves. |
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Basel III – the sequel to the sequel!
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has eased some of the proposed capital and liquidity rules originally tabled as part of ‘Basel III’ as a result of lobbying (notably from France, Germany and Japan). |
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A not too stressful stress-test
“We expect the stress test setting to be too soft to reassure the market about the stability of the European banking sector and entire operation will look like a shell game put in place to buy some time,” says Christian Tegllund Blaabjerg, Chief Equity Strategist at Saxo Bank. |
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