The percentage of Hungarians who expect their financial positions to improve in the coming twelve months shrank 1 percentage point to 22% in Q4 from the previous quarter.
The share of those who consider job prospects favorable in the next 12 months declined to 11% in Q4 from 12% in Q3, some 20% of survey participants in Q4 said, however, that they found prices and their financial situation appropriate for making purchases, up from 16% in Q3.
Nielsen noted that its European and global confidence indices also dropped by 2 percentage points, to 96 and 76, respectively.
GKI-Erste said yesterday that both consumer and business expectations worsened in January, as the combined gauge of consumer and business confidence index fell to -2.9 points from the previous month’s -0.2 points.
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