Business confidence sinks to 2.5 year low

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Dutch business confidence sunk to its lowest level in 2.5 years in July, the national statistics office CBS said on Wednesday.


A decline in orders in particular helped push the business confidence index to -5.2, compared with -4.8 in June.
In addition, companies are more pessimistic about future developments, the CBS said.

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