{"id":4090,"date":"2022-06-30T11:14:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T09:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/current-sentiment-in-the-sme-sector\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:06:19","slug":"current-sentiment-in-the-sme-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/current-sentiment-in-the-sme-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Current sentiment in the SME sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kacaj00t-fa0513dd0e1be07f861abe253f48a7ec '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>Business climate in the SME sector is rising, but concerns about a crash are growing<\/h3>\n<table width=\"620\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"620\">According to the KfW-ifo SME Barometer from May 2022, the slight improvement in sentiment among SMEs continued in May for the second month in a row. Nevertheless, the business climate is still far below the level prior to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. Moreover, this time only situation assessments are improving, while business expectations are becoming even more pessimistic. Companies are looking into an economic abyss.   <\/p>\n<p>The following key statements reflect the current situation:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list list--bullets\">\n<li class=\"list__item\">Small and medium-sized enterprises with improved business situation in May, but expectations fall<\/li>\n<li class=\"list__item\">Sentiment in large companies brightens, especially in industry<\/li>\n<li class=\"list__item\">Uncertainties remain high and cloud economic outlook<\/li>\n<li><span id=\"page105R_mcid25\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Service providers currently in the best mood<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kfw.de\/PDF\/Download-Center\/Konzernthemen\/Research\/PDF-Dokumente-KfW-ifo-Mittelstandsbarometer\/2022\/KfW-ifo-Mittelstandsbarometer_2022-05.pdf?kfwnl=Research.07-06-2022.1350954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The KfW SME Barometer May 2022 in detail<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"620\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"620\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"620\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"avia_textblock avia_textblock_style\" data-update_with=\"content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"avia_textblock avia_textblock_style\" data-update_with=\"content\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4093,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/4093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}