The McKinsey Quarterly: The McKinsey Global Survey of Business Executives , October 2005

The McKinsey Quarterly: The McKinsey Global Survey of Business Executives , October 2005: "SurveyThe McKinsey Global Survey of Business Executives , October 2005" The confidence of US executives in their economy plummeted over the past three months, according to the latest McKinsey Global Survey of Business Executives. The confidence of executives overall in the global economy was unchanged: more of our respondents are upbeat than not, by a small margin (Exhibit 1). But significant shifts occurred at the regional level; executives in China and in other developing markets (with the exception of India) also reported declining confidence in their country's economy.


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