Ultimately, consumer and business confidence are mostly irrational.

The latest ZEW survey of euro zone business confidence buttresses these fears.

Business and consumer confidence are also likely to take a hit, further undermining demand.

NEW HAVEN The world s fundamental economic problem today is a staggering loss of business confidence.

It is working in consolidating peace and stability and in generating investor and business confidence.

And Confidence became a New York Times bestseller and topped Business Week's hardcover bestseller list.

In conclusion, allow me to express the confidence of the business sector in the General Assembly.

Small wonder, then, that production, sales, and consumer and business confidence are falling throughout the euro zone.

The most promising prospect for a return of business confidence now would be some kind of public inspiration.

Financial markets, through which investment is made, were always liable to collapse when something happened to disturb business confidence.

The central bank would lower interest rates households would spend in anticipation of lower taxes and business confidence would rise.

Indonesia, for example, has experienced accelerating growth, with rising business and consumer confidence boosting investment to almost 33 of GDP.

Without concrete and rapid security solutions, everyday users and potential users may lose confidence in business transactions over the Internet.

Farther East, Japan is trying a new economic experiment to stop deflation, boost economic growth, and restore business and consumer confidence.

It was suggested by a business group and others that an active support of the business in South Africa towards those goals would generate substantial confidence of the people in the Government.

In the advanced countries, the fall in asset values and, more generally, fear of what comes next has shattered consumer and business confidence.

Success breeds confidence, and confidence brings progress.

The scope of the draft provisions is uncertain as regards place of business, which is a vital concept in establishing confidence in electronic communications.

He drew attention to a number of editorial changes to be made to the text and went on to point out that in the second line of the fifteenth preambular paragraph, the phrase quot would risk seriously eroding business confidence quot should be revised to read quot would seriously risk eroding business confidence quot .

Confidence

Confidence?

Confidence?

Confidence is important, but it must rest on sound fundamentals. Policies must not be based on the fiction that good loans were made, and that the business acumen of financial market leaders and regulators will be validated once confidence is restored.

Sure, gives you more confidence. Wrong kind of confidence.

Business was business.

Business is business.

Throughout the crisis, as business confidence evaporated, banks were forced to sell assets and cut lending in order to maintain capital requirements stipulated by the Accords.

Initial damage to the confidence of the business class caused by higher taxes on the wealthy would be balanced by the prospect of higher overall consumption.

Confidence! Devotion!

Self confidence.

A Confidence.

Some countries have bucked the global trend. Indonesia, for example, has experienced accelerating growth, with rising business and consumer confidence boosting investment to almost 33 of GDP.

The Ifo business confidence indicator in Germany has been down four months in a row but, according to Ifo, the ECB does not have to change policy.

Moreover, high oil prices in a country that imports all of its oil needs, together with falling business profitability and confidence, are pushing Japan into a recession.

Such mechanisms can increase SME confidence in e business processes and tools and encourage their adoption, potentially reducing their costs and expanding their supply and sales channels.

Our more immediate strategic objective should be to reduce the risk from international terrorism so that our peoples can go about their business freely and in confidence.

All parties felt that low business confidence was deterring both foreign and domestic investment, and that foreign investors looked to domestic investors for the signal to invest.

We have confidence, because we have confidence in the Palestinian people.

On the financial front, the failure of weaker banks in a recession leaves survivors that benefit from greater public confidence and are therefore able to resume profitable business.

It has also led to a rebound in business confidence indexes issued by the South African Chamber of Commerce at the end of 1993 and in early 1994.

Business is business, my dear.

Surveys of business and investor confidence have softened the respected IFO index of German business sentiment fell from 107.0 to 106.4 in Julyamp 45 amp 45 and the so called hard data industrial production, retail sales, etc.amp 45 amp 45 has been mixed.

The Confidence Game.

The Confidence Game

There's a confidence.