The only CEO economic sentiment indicator to span the globe on a quarterly basis.
YPO Global Pulse offers unique insights into the global economy from YPO’s network of 19,000 CEOs in 110 countries representing a broad range of business sizes and sectors. A third of YPO members are entrepreneurs, a third run family businesses, and the rest are professional (hired) executives.
Each quarter, YPO members provide their perspectives on the overall economic climate as well as changes and expected changes in sales, employee counts and fixed investment. Here you can see their views, read select media coverage on the YPO Global Pulse and more.
October 2011 YPO Confidence Index by Area
Confidence continued its decline globally, with CEOs expressing cautious expectations about growth in sales, hiring and capital spending in the coming months. Refer to the charts below for regional variations.
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The YPO Global Confidence Index fell 3.3 points to 58.0 in the third quarter of 2011, a level not seen since the fourth quarter of 2009 when the world was at the tail end of the 2008-2009 recession. Every region but non-EU Europe reported declines in confidence, and the divergence between confidence in the emerging markets and the developed world is shrinking.
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