-8.3 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 March 2020 (3 month moving average basis) show that sentiment was down on the month across the board.
With the public health pandemic starting to disrupt economic life, firms in all regions reported some softness in the recent trading period and markedly downgraded their near-term expectations for business activity and hiring this month. On the consumer front, the economy was to the fore, with households everywhere decidedly gloomier about the outlook for the coming year and also more downbeat about their own financial prospects.
