ECONOMIC SENTIMENT INDICATOR : ESI BACK TO LONG-TERM AVERAGE LEVELS.

Increasingly optimistic, investors are returning to the eurozone's markets, signalling an improved economic climate in the region. The Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI), published on 9 January by the European Commission, increased by 1.6 points in the eurozone to 100.0, reaching its long-term average for the first time since July 2011. The ESI increased by 1.4 points in the EU, to 103.5 points. The main reason for the slightly weaker improvement in sentiment in the Union as a whole was a...