Corporate Philippines is riding on a “sky-high” confidence level this year, topping business sentiment elsewhere in Southeast Asia on the back of good local economic prospects, British bank Standard Chartered said.
Filipinos were the most optimistic consumers in Southeast Asia and the second most optimistic in the world, defying a broad global decline in confidence during the fourth quarter of 2012, according to an international polling firm.
Filipino business leaders turned more upbeat in the second quarter and even ranked second highest globally in having the proportion of optimists among their peers, based on the latest quarterly survey of Grant Thornton International Business Report.
