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News from 2018-03-08 / KfW Research
KfW-ifo SME Barometer February 2018
SME business confidence slips despite new record situation assessments
SMEs are growing increasingly sceptical as to whether the very high current pace of economic activity can be maintained in the long term. While situation assessments in February rose to a new high, business expectations fell for the fourth consecutive month. Given the increasingly higher levels of aggregate capacity utilisation, the growth rate is likely to slow down moderately in the course of the year.