Italian consumer confidence is slipping this Christmas
Italian consumer confidence has fallen from 98.2 (revised from 98.3) to 96.2 in December, according to Istat.
Analysts had forecast a slight increase to 98.8.
Statisticians said that the decreased can be explained by personal and current components that decreased from 101.1 to 97.3 and from 99.2 to 95.0 respectively.
"@minefornothing: Italian Consumer Confidence drops to 96.2 in December from 98.2 in November"lowest since June, not pretty..
— kit juckes (@kitjuckes) December 23, 2013