June 2009 CONFINDEX Reading

  • While we are still in negative territory, we are encouraged by and see signs of optimism in the June reading.
  • While still in negative territory June’s reading reflects an uptick from 84 to 89.
  • Again while still negative, June’s reading showed over a 10 point uptick from 69 to 80.
  • March’s reading was in positive territory and June’s reading reflects even a further uptick from 112 to 123.
  • The Financial Conditions and Current Confidence Indices are essentially unchanged from their March readings
  • Current total backlog is increasingly negative but future backlog reflects increasing optimism for total backlog in 2010.

Copyright © 2009 by the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA). All rights reserved. This report first appeared in June 2009 on CFMA.org.

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Anirban Basu

Anirban Basu is Chairman & CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic and policy consulting firm in Baltimore, MD. He is one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most recognizable economists in part because of his consulting work on behalf of such clients as prominent developers, bankers, brokerage houses, energy suppliers, and law firms.

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