Todos los indicadores de confianza europeos (industria, servicios, consumidores), citados por Financial Times, con cifras de la Comisión europea, son negativos o muy negativos. Con una oscura ventaja para España: ningún previsible resultado electoral asegura, ni mucho menos, un modelo económico menos dependiente del sol, el cemento y los ladrillos, por los suelos.

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FT, indicadores de confianza en la zona euro.

Sobre la declinante confianza y los problemas de fondo de la economía española, tan alejados de las promesas fiscales / electorales:

Economic confidence across the region is tumbling, according to the European Commission. Its banks – like their US counterparts – are reporting extensive writedowns, while consumer spending is drying up.

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“Spain has undergone such a tremendous transformation in the past two decades. Now it has to take the next step,” says Stefan Bergheim, a senior economist at Deutsche Bank. An inflation differential with the EU needs to be tackled. Productivity, which is low, has to be addressed and Spain must move on from bricks and mortar to find a more sustainable route to prosperity. [Financial Times, 6 / 7 feb. 08. Heightened resistance? Eurozone ‘decoupling’ from US economy will be put to the test].

• Economía, en este Infierno.