In Turkey, confidence in all sectors improved in June, the country’s statistical authority revealed on Wednesday.
Seasonally adjusted confidence indices for services, retail trade and construction rose 8.5%, 9.3% and 32.1%, respectively, in June month-on-month, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat).
CONSTRUCTION CONFIDENCE ROSE TO 78
The index for services rose to 55.5 in June, up from 51.1 in May. Compared to the previous month, business situation and demand turnover over past three months’ sub-indices increased 2.9% and 3.6%, respectively, while demand turnover expectation over next three months’ sub-index rose 13.7%.
Business activity-sales expectation for the next three-month period rose 28.9% to 96.8, while “current overall order books sub-index [for the construction sector] became 59.1 by increasing 48%.”