RMB/BER Business Confidence Index

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RMB/BER Business Confidence Index

The BER takes the percentage of respondents that rates prevailing conditions as satisfactory as indicator or proxy of business confidence. The composite RMB/BER Business Confidence Index (BCI) is the unweighted mean of five sectoral indices, namely that of manufactures, building contractors, retailers, wholesalers and new vehicle dealers. Business confidence can vary between 0 and 100, where 0 indicates an extreme lack of confidence, 50 neutrality and 100 extreme confidence. Click here for more information on how the BER’s business surveys are conducted.

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RMB/BER Business Confidence Index (Sectoral, Provincial and Composites), 2025Q2

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The RMB/BER Business Confidence index (BCI) declined by five points to 40 in the second quarter of 2025, after the recovery that started in the first half of 2024 stalled in the first quarter. This implies that only four out of ten business respondents in the most cyclically sensitive sectors of the economy were satisfied with prevailing business conditions.