Business confidence less negative in the third quarter of 2025

Business confidence has increased and stands at -3.8 in the third quarter of 2025. Confidence rose especially in the transport and storage sector, as well as in wholesale trade and trade brokerage. Nevertheless, entrepreneurs are experiencing slightly more obstacles and remain divided about investments in 2025. This was reported by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the Chamber of Commerce (KVK), the Economic Institute for the Construction Industry (EIB), SME Netherlands (MKB-Nederland) and the Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW), based on the Netherlands Business Survey conducted in July.

The increase in business confidence is mainly due to entrepreneurs having less negative expectations about the economic climate; regarding its development, they are almost as pessimistic as in the previous quarter. Business confidence is now nearly equal to the average (-3.7) of the series since 2012.

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