European Commission : January 2013: Business Climate Indicator broadly unchanged

European Commission

Press release

Brussels, 30 January 2013

January 2013: Business Climate Indicator broadly unchanged

In January 2013, the Business Climate Indicator (BCI) for the euro area remained broadly unchanged at -1.09. While their assessment of current order books (overall and export) worsened, industry managers became less pessimistic in their production expectations and assessments of both past production and adequacy of stocks of finished products.

The BCI is based on a factor analysis of the euro area aggregate balances (seasonally adjusted) of five of the monthly questions in the industry survey (only employment and selling-price expectations are excluded).

The next BCI results are due to be published on 27 February 2013.

Full details of the Business Climate Indicator are available on the Europa website:

http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/db_indicators/surveys/index_en.htm

Scheduled publication dates

	Flash estimate	Final release EU, euro area and Member States
February 2013	20 February 2013	27 February 2013
March 2013	20 March 2013	27 March 2013
April 2013	22 April 2013	29 April 2013

Contacts : Audrey Augier([phone]) Vandna Kalia([phone]) Simon O'Connor([phone])