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Optimism in the European Union (EU) dropped in Q2 2018 compared to the start of the year, according to Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR)

Business confidence is buoyant in ASEAN, reaching the highest level ever recorded by the IBR in Q2 2018.

Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR) shares research into business leaders level of optimism in the current economic climate and future outlook.

Exploring economic sentiment across the Americas, as well as key factors impacting trade and how this plays out in key country economies in the region.

European businesses have a spring in their step. Data from our International Business Report (IBR) finds that business optimism across the EU sits at net 60% in the first quarter of 2018.

Record levels of companies are set to give workers a pay rise over the next 12 months as global optimism hits an all-time high and business productivity is buoyant,

Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR) finds that record business optimism is creating peak investment conditions

Grant Thornton is pleased to launch our annual Women in business 2018 report: beyond policy to progress on International Women's Day. The research focuses on the landscape of business and government policy and explore the drivers of what creates change in gender diversity in business leadership across the world.

Are businesses focused on ticking the ‘diversity’ box to avoid an all-male leadership team, rather than creating an inclusive culture that leads to a genuinely diverse senior management team?

Grant Thornton International’s diversity snapshot, explores the diversity of senior teams around the world by ethnicity, age and gender, ahead of our 2018 Women in Business report.

Despite the rise of automation, record global business optimism (net 58%) will see businesses turn to people in 2018 to meet swelling order books.

Grant Thornton’s latest quarterly business survey shows profit expectations falling in nine of the world’s ten largest economies. This deterioration comes alongside rising wage pressure created by a lack of skilled workers.

Our International Business Report (IBR) finds that while business optimism is rising to new highs in Q2 2017, a storm may be brewing in the shape of a skilled worker shortage.

Our IBR global business executive survey found that export expectations hit an 18-month high in the first quarter of 2017 after years of economic stimulus by governments and central banks take hold.

The Eurozone has since been expanding steadily and it is on course for its third consecutive year of above-trend growth according to Grant Thornton’s International business report

Our International Business Report (IBR) survey finds an improving global economic picture.