-14.8 on previous index reading
(3 Month Moving Average)
The Bank of Ireland Regional Pulses bring together the views of households and firms around the country. The results for May 2020 (3 month moving average basis) show that sentiment was down on the month across the board.
With the country in lockdown, consumers and businesses nationwide were clearly worried about the here and now. Efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus appear to be bearing some fruit though and the Government has set out a timetable to get society and commerce up and running again, which led to somewhat less pessimistic expectations in this month’s survey.
