However, some pointed to other recent business surveys, which painted a more positive picture of the economy.
Most business surveys released over the last week have come out on the weak side.
Short term indicators such as industrial production and business surveys suggest that Indian economic activity has remained weak in recent months.
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Business surveys suggest that the economy is operating at close to capacity, and that companies are primed to push up prices.
Estimates based on business surveys have consistently pointed to stronger service-sector growth over the past year or so than the official figures.
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The U.S. the euro area and China are all releasing business surveys.
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More timely business surveys suggest that the recovery will pick up.
Facebook says such results are more consistent with other recent independent small-business surveys that show Facebook is the most often used and most effective social-media channel.
Facebook says those kind of results are more consistent with other recent independent small-business surveys that show Facebook is the most often used and most effective social-media channel.
Output growth slowed to a halt in the second quarter, business surveys point to further weakening during the second half of this year, and the labour market has softened.
Business surveys suggest that growth in the whole euro area is likely to slow next year, but The Economist's poll of forecasters still expects euro-11 growth of 2.3% in 1999.
Business surveys have been painting a deteriorating economic outlook.
In Europe, some business surveys have suggested improving confidence.
Business surveys suggest the economy has been chugging along.
No sooner had that forecast come out than we had a string of upbeat business surveys suggesting that growth in the first three months of 2012 might be stronger then we thought.
But business surveys suggest that British entrepreneurs find it tougher to get financial backing than their counterparts in other advanced countries: Britain scores seventh out of nine on the accessibility of venture capital.
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That is, if we use business surveys to make a big deal of what people think about the general state of the economy, are we simply making news out of what people see in the news?
The OBR can point to some important evidence in their favour: business surveys consistently report companies saying they do not have much spare capacity, or room to grow, despite the fact that our economy is now 4% smaller than it was at the start of 2009, and some 13% smaller than it would be now, had it simply continued on its pre-crisis trend.
When trying to divine future employment in the small-business sector from surveys of business owners, policy makers and economic analysts need to take entrepreneurial optimism into account or their predictions will be off the mark.
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We run 39 Business to Market surveys (just in PCCI), and we have an NPS manager per Business Units to make sure we can gain both Absolute and Realtive scores.
The World Bank has an economic research section that each year turns out a first-rate book called Doing Business, which surveys 175 economies on everything from how many licenses you need to start a business to enforcing contracts to securities transparency.
Such thoughts are bolstered by business and consumer surveys that are unremittingly gloomy, and by the fact that the Bank now clearly believes that demand is slowing sharply.
More reforms could be taken from the World Bank publication Doing Business, which surveys 178 economies on everything from the ease of setting up legal businesses to enforcing contracts.
Surveys of business have suggested a further deterioration is likely, even in Germany.
When surveys ask business leaders who is leading in the area of sustainability the answer is surprising to most: Walmart.
Surveys of business confidence suggest that growth is set to slow, but there seems to be little risk of recession.
The main evidence for this lies in surveys of business opinion.
U.S. News combines a weighted mix of seven factors including starting salaries, GMAT scores, surveys of business school deans and recruiters, undergraduate GPAs, and so on.
That figure is based on the firm's 340, 000 U.S. business clients, representing 21 million U.S. workers, using the actual data of the number of people on business payrolls rather than surveys.
Take economic opportunity comparisons with Texas for example, a state with one of the lowest tax burdens in the country, far fewer regulations and taxes on businesses, and which has consistently ranked among the top five in various surveys for business friendliness.
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