{"id":31763,"date":"2019-02-04T16:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31763"},"modified":"2019-02-04T16:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:22:19","slug":"uk-business-confidence-at-lowest-level-in-nearly-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31763","title":{"rendered":"UK business confidence at lowest level in nearly a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN Business)<\/cite>Companies in the United Kingdom are spending less and scaling back plans because of Brexit fears that have pushed business confidence to its lowest level in a decade. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The dire outlook was revealed Monday in surveys published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/uk\/en\/pages\/press-releases\/articles\/cfo-survey-q4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deloitte<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icaew.com\/-\/media\/corporate\/files\/technical\/economy\/business-confidence-monitor\/icaew-bcm-q1-2019.ashx\" target=\"_blank\">Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/uk\/en\/pages\/press-releases\/articles\/cfo-survey-q4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deloitte <\/a>found that chief financial officers have adopted their &#8220;most defensive strategy stance in nine years.&#8221; Revenue growth expectations have dropped to their lowest level since 2016. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN Business)Companies in the United Kingdom are spending less and scaling back plans because of Brexit fears that have pushed business confidence to its lowest level in a decade. The dire outlook was revealed Monday in surveys published by Deloitte and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.Deloitte found that chief financial&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}