France October Business Confidence: Summary (Table)

By Mark Evans

Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Following is a summary of the October business sentiment survey from the French Statistics Office in Paris:

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                           Oct. Sept.  July  June   May April March  Feb.  Jan.
                           2008  2008  2008  2008  2008  2008  2008  2008  2008
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Overall Indicator             88    91    97   101   102   106   108   107   109
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Past production              -11    -8     4     7     8    11    17    16    18
Inventories                   19    18    17    17    16    16    11    12    12
Overall order-books          -30   -25   -19   -13   -11    -4     1     0     1
Foreign order-books          -26   -28   -16    -7    -8     3     1     1     2
Own-co. production outlook   -19   -11    -1     6     5    13    15    15    16
Own-co. price outlook          9    14    18    14    12    12     9    12     8
Overall production outlook   -66   -42   -33   -15   -14    -9    -5    -9    -2
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NOTE: No survey is conducted in August.
     Data are adjusted for seasonal influences.
     The indices are calculated by the balance of positive and negative
     responses. Insee questions about 4000 companies for the survey.
     The newly added Overall Confidence Indicator is calculated taking
     into account many of the individual Business Confidence components.
     (past production, own company production, stocks, overall and foreign
     orders and overall production sentiment)

SOURCE: Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE)

To contact the reporter on this story: Mark Evans in London at mevans8@bloomberg.net