Investor barometer: how do investors view the future of the Belgian economy? † Money

The barometer weakened to 69 points in June. This brings the depth record of March (66 points) back into view. It is also the fifth month in a row that the investor barometer is below the neutral level of 100 points.

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So pessimism trumps: only 18 percent of investors think that the economic situation in Belgium will improve in the coming months. In addition, half of the respondents think that the Belgian stock market will weaken further in the coming months. As a result, more than half (53 percent) are concerned about their standard of living.

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Philippe Ledent, expert economist at ING Belgium, is not really surprised. Admittedly, with the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the rapid decline in the economic climate and extremely high inflation, there were plenty of reasons for concern,” he said in a press release.

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There is one bright spot: the longer term. There are more investors who think they will be financially better off within ten years (37 percent) than there are investors who think the opposite (23 percent).

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