Monday, March 10, 2014

Europe's Sentix Survey & GDP

While the headline number increased, narrowly missing economists' positive expectations (actual 13.9 versus consensus 14.0)...

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The 'Investor Expectations' (the forward-looking component of the survey) declined:

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Though not perfect, the survey's correlation with GDP suggests room for continued, but limited, improvement in the coming quarters:

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