America's Economic Future – A Discussion By Ted Kavadas
On July 5, The Conference Board released its 2nd Quarter CEO Confidence Survey. The overall measure of CEO Confidence was at 47, down from 63 in the first quarter. Notable excerpts from this July 5 Press Release include: CEOs’ assessment of current economic conditions has turned considerably negative. Only 17 percent claim conditions have improved compared …
Recently Deloitte released their “CFO Signals” (pdf) “high-level” report for the 2nd Quarter of 2012. As seen in page 2 of the report, “Ninety-three CFOs responded during the two weeks ended May 29. Three fourths are from public companies, and over 77% are from companies with more than $1B in annual revenue.” Here are some excerpts that …
On June 6 the June Duke/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey (pdf) was released. It contains a variety of statistics regarding how CFOs view business and economic conditions. In this CFO Survey, I found the following to be notable excerpts: U.S. finance chiefs plan to expand workforce by 2.5 percent, on average over the next year. Nearly 30 …
On April 5, The Conference Board released its 1st Quarter CEO Confidence Survey. The overall measure of CEO Confidence was at 63, up from 49 in the fourth quarter. Notable excerpts from this April 5 Press Release include: Says Lynn Franco, Director of The Conference Board Consumer Research Center: “CEOs’ confidence has rebounded from rather dismal …
Recently Deloitte released their “CFO Signals” report for 1st Quarter 2012. As seen in page 2 of the full (pdf) report, “Ninety-four CFOs responded during the two weeks ended February 24. Over 71% are from public companies, and over 77% are from companies with more than $1B in annual revenue.” Here are some excerpts that …
On March 7 the March Duke/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey (pdf) was released. It contains a variety of statistics regarding how CFOs view business and economic conditions. In this CFO Survey, I found the following to be notable excerpts: Earnings and capital spending are both expected to rise more than 7 percent. also: The employment outlook has …
On January 10, The Conference Board released its 4th Quarter CEO Confidence Survey. The overall measure of CEO Confidence was at 49, up from 42 in the third quarter. Notable excerpts from this January 10 Press Release include: Says Lynn Franco, Director of The Conference Board Consumer Research Center: “The bounce back in CEO Confidence in …
Recently Deloitte released their “CFO Signals” report for 4th Quarter 2011. As seen in page 2 of the full (pdf) report, “Eighty four CFOs responded during the two weeks ended November 29. Over 70% are from public companies, and over 75% are from companies with more than $1B in annual revenue.” Here are some excerpts that …
On October 7, I wrote a post about the latest Business Roundtable’s CEO Economic Outlook Survey and the Duke/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey titled “CEO & CFO Surveys 3Q 2011.” Subsequent to that post, on October 11, The Conference Board released its 3rd Quarter CEO Confidence Survey. The overall measure of CEO Confidence was at …
Recently Deloitte released their “CFO Signals” report (pdf) for the 3rd Quarter 2011. As seen in page 2 of the report, “Ninety-one CFOs responded during the two weeks ended August 26. Three-fourths are from public companies, and three-fourths are from companies with more than $1B in annual revenue.” Here are some excerpts that I found notable: …