Consumer confidence

Confidence in Turkey's key sectors improved on a monthly basis in June, the country's statistical authority reported on June 24. 

Among all sub-indices, the services sector index posted the largest rise with 6.2% to 108.5 this month thanks to the easing of lockdown restrictions after mid-May as coronavirus cases and fatalities continue to ebb nationwide.

Ljubljana – Consumer confidence in Slovenia further improved in June, as the relevant indicator was up by one percentage point compared to May and 12 points higher than in June 2020. It is also nine percentage points higher compared to last year’s average, the Statistics Office said on Tuesday.

Turkey's services and retail trade sectors posted declines in confidence in May, while the construction sector saw an increase, the country's statistical authority reported on May 25. 

A regular monthly poll by the National Statistical Institute has found that managers saw the business climate in Bulgaria in April largely unchanged compared with March.

The monthly polls earlier this year had seen slight improvements in the business climate in Bulgaria, after the indicator plunged in the first half of 2020 against the background of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Turkey's economic confidence index surged to a 14-month high in March, according to the country's statistical institute on March 31. 

Driven by consumer, real sector (manufacturing industry), services, and retail trade indices, the main reading improved 3.3% from February to 98.9 this month, Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) data revealed.

Turkey's services and retail trade sectors posted a rise in confidence in March, while the construction sector saw a drop, the country's statistical authority reported on March 26. 

Consumers' confidence in the Turkish economy went up in March for the third month in a row, according to Turkey's statistical authority on March 24.

The consumer confidence index rose 2.5 percent month-on-month to 86.7 in March, according to data prepared in cooperation by TÜİK and the Central Bank by measuring consumer tendencies.

Consumer confidence in the Turkish economy posted a rise in February, the country's statistical authority announced on Feb. 18. 

The consumer confidence index stood at 84.5 this month, up 1.5% from 83.3 in January, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) said.

Confidence in Turkey's service sectors bettered while construction and retail trade slipped on a monthly basis in January, the country's statistical authority revealed on Jan. 25. 

Greek consumers appear pessimistic about the future of the national economy and their own personal finances, according to a survey by the Association of Business and Retail Sales of Greece (SELPE).