{"id":355123,"date":"2026-01-06T12:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355123\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:22:20","slug":"business-leaders-investment-intentions-fall-in-the-new-year-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355123\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Leaders’ Investment Intentions Fall in the New Year \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first Institute of Directors\u2019 Confidence Index has dropped for this year. No sign of any corners being turned\u2026<\/p>\n

Business leaders were surveyed on their views in December. Their optimism for the economy moved up from -73 pre-Budget to -66. Confidence in their own companies only rose by one point\u2026<\/p>\n

Every other metric got worse or stayed the same as pre-Budget:<\/p>\n

Headcount expectations dropped to -14 in December from -8 in November
\nInvestment intentions dropped to -21 from -17
\nCost expectations fell marginally to +84 from +86
\nExport expectations were little changed at +5 from +6
\nRevenue expectations were little changed at +8 from +7<\/p>\n

This time last year the Starmer line was<\/a>: \u201cGrowth is the number one priority of this government.\u201d Is this growth in the room with us right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first Institute of Directors\u2019 Confidence Index has dropped for this year. No sign of any corners being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,79069,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-355123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-institute-of-directors","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}