1.   A report showing falling business confidence lifted hopes that slowing economic growth will prompt the Bundesbank to cut rates soon.

2.   All told, business confidence should return next year.

3.   And while the price of oil looked like a gusher, consumer and business confidence fell down the well.

4.   Bradstreet survey released today showed business confidence slumped to its lowest level in more than three and a half years.

5.   Consumer and business confidence are plunging.

6.   Interest rate reductions would restore business confidence.

7.   The current level of economic activity will influence business confidence.

8.   The forces at work, each in its own way, pummeled consumer and business confidence.

9.   The government is betting this trend will boost business confidence, and thus investment and jobs.

10.   The poll highlights the problems Labour would have in raising business confidence.