SURVEY: CHINA BUSINESS CONFIDENCE DIPS IN Q4

BEIJING: Business confidence among China’s entrepreneurs and bankers dipped in the fourth quarter of 2015 from the third, according to surveys by the People’s Bank of China published yesterday. The entrepreneurs’ confidence index fell to 46% in the fourth quarter, 4.5 percentage points lower than the third quarter. A separate central bank survey showed that bankers’ confidence index slipped to 37.9% in the fourth quarter, down 2.7 percentage points from the third.