{"id":245249,"date":"2004-04-13T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/04\/survey-reveals-bahamian-economy-still-vulnerable"},"modified":"2004-04-13T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2004-04-13T15:23:09","slug":"survey-reveals-bahamian-economy-still-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/04\/survey-reveals-bahamian-economy-still-vulnerable","title":{"rendered":"Survey Reveals Bahamian Economy Still Vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The semi-annual survey conducted by the Coalition of Private Sector Organisations, which drew responses from 93 businesses, found that while the economy was continuing a &#8220;three-year trend of vulnerability&#8221; business optimism about future prospects was increasing, indicating a tentative recovery was underway.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nSome 79 per cent of Bahamian businesses held a fair to positive outlook for the economy in January 2004, compared to just 57 per cent six months ago and 48 per cent a year ago, leading the Coalition survey to conclude that a &#8220;clear trend of increased confidence in the future economic outlook is occurring.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamian economy remains vulnerable despite and increase in business optimism for 2004, with 35 per cent of companies telling a private sector survey that they anticipate making a net loss in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}