TABLE-Business climate in E.Europe waning, survey shows

...the region's economic 
outlook, according to the Reuters & OeKB CEE Business Climate 
index  released on Thursday. 
     
 CEE REGION                        III/2007   II/2007   I/2007 
 (Survey done in)                    (SEPT)    (JULY)    (JAN) 
 ECONOMIC OUTLOOK                       51        59       68 
 CURRENT BUSINESS SITUATION             61        62       70 
 BUSINESS EXPECTATIONS                  49        59       63 
 BUSINESS CLIMATE                       55        60       66 
 INVESTMENT STOCKS                      35        37       40 
     
 BUSINESS CLIMATE BY COUNTRY       III/2007   II/2007   I/2007 
 (Survey done in)                    (Sept)    (July)    (Jan) 
 RUSSIA                                 63        78       76 
 SLOVAKIA                               63        62       66 
 POLAND                                 61        60       65 
 SERBIA MONTENEGRO                      61        56       56 
 ROMANIA                                59        75       77 
 CZECH REPUBLIC                         57        65       67 
 UKRAINE                                56        58       69 
 CROATIA                                54        54       66 
 BULGARIA                               53        68       75 
 HUNGARY                                37        40       57 
     
    NOTE. Distributed exclusively on Reuters, the Reuters & OeKB 
Central European Business Climate Index is based on quarterly 
surveys of 400 international companies with regional 
headquarters in Austria, which manage 1,400 affiliate companies 
in 19 countries in central and eastern Europe. 
    Surveyed companies have three options to answer: positive, 
neutral and negative. The index shows the balance of positive 
answers minus negative answers. A value above zero signals more 
positive than negative answers, a value below zero more negative 
than positive answers. 
    From next year, the survey will be published quarterly. The 
first survey, to be done in January, will be published on March 
3, 2008. 
  
  Keywords: ECONOMY EAST/CLIMATE  
    

[Reuters/Finance.cz]