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Citizens: Recovery Continues Amid Increased Vaccinations, Fiscal Package
May 03, 2021, 07:46 AM
Continued economic recovery from the shock of COVID-19 kept the past quarterâs national Citizens Business Conditions Index⢠(CBCI) in upbeat territory, with another healthy reading of 53.3. This compares with the fourth quarter reading of 56.0. A reading above 50 is considered expansionary.
Better-than-expected vaccination rates buoyed the outlook for many Americans, while a newly signed fiscal relief package provided additional stimulus checks, as well as support for the unemployed and for state governments. These developments helped to boost business activity and put the recovery on more stable footing, based on CBCI indicators. This momentum extended across both manufacturing and services sectors, though mixed signs in employment and new-business applications undersco
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Citizens Business Conditions Index™ Finds Recovery Continues Amid Increased Vaccinations, Fiscal Package
April 30, 2021 GMT
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 30, 2021
Citizens announced today that continued economic recovery from the shock of COVID-19 kept the past quarter’s national Citizens Business Conditions Index™ (CBCI) in upbeat territory, with another healthy reading of 53.3. This compares with the fourth quarter reading of 56.0. A reading above 50 is considered expansionary.
Better-than-expected vaccination rates buoyed the outlook for many Americans, while a newly signed fiscal relief package provided additional stimulus checks, as well as support for the unemployed and for state governments. These developments helped to boost business activity and put the recovery on more stable footing, based on CBCI indicators. This momentum extended across both manufacturing and
Grand Rapids Business Journal
News of two effective vaccines, presidential election outcome buoyed fourth-quarter optimism.
The Citizens Business Conditions Index showed a second consecutive quarter of economic gains as optimism fueled by COVID-19 vaccine announcements and increased election certainty began to outweigh concerns about spiking pandemic cases.
Citizens which is based in Providence, Rhode Island, and has branches in Michigan and 10 other states published its fourth-quarter Business Conditions Index on Feb. 4. The national index rose modestly to 61.4 in the final quarter of 2020, up from 61.2 at the end of the third quarter, showing a continuing rebound after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic put downward pressure on the index earlier in 2020.