Now the recession is apparently over, global companies are back to thinking about the future...
There was a point this year when you could be forgiven for deciding to make yourself a placard, paint "The End is Nigh” on it, and start pacing the streets, exuding the resigned confidence of the damned.
Now the mood seems to be lifting as people come to terms with the changed circumstances and realise that business does indeed continue during a recession. That seems to be one of the messages to take from BDO Stoy Hayward’s latest Business Trends report. It found that short-and medium-term business confidence has risen simultaneously for the first time in 13 months.
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