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Europe’s business leaders surveyed on eurozone crisis

Thursday, February 09, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Thought leadership | Tags: business, statistics, report, survey, IBR, financial, International business report, Europe, debt, EU, crisis, business leaders, integration, euro, eurozone, single currency, sovereign debt crisis, analysis,

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How are business leaders in and around the European Union reacting to the eurozone crisis, do they still support the euro – and what do they think is the solution? Grant Thornton asked 50 senior executives in each economy to find out…

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IBR index shows business optimism collapsing under rising global uncertainty

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Thought leadership | Tags: statistics, economy, IBR, International business report, Europe, debt, index, US, crisis, optimism

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New figures from Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR) show a pandemic collapse in business optimism during the third quarter of 2011 with net global business optimism dropping from 31% to just 3%.

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