Supermarket sector confidence improves

The confidence of entrepreneurs in the supermarket retail shows signs of improvement after reaching negative record in January this year, evaluates the São Paulo supermarket Association (Apas).
The economics and Research Manager, Rodrigo Mariano, believes that the effect is associated with the political landscape and the impeachment process progress of President Dilma Rousseff, but considers that the support of higher levels of optimism will only occur if they are announced changes in driving the economy.
After reaching 72% of pessimism in January, higher level of historical series from 2011, the survey of confidence of Supermarkets registered fall in this indicator in February. The total of naysayers reached 65%. Mariano assesses that there is a strong correlation of the indicator with the entrepreneurs '' perceptions about economic policy. The beginning of decay, with the growth of pessimism, in 2013, before signs of worsening, especially on inflation. Now, he says, the industry feels that there is no possibility of a new Government have Congressional support for structural reforms ".
Short term
The Economist sees no major changes in the short term trends. "While there are signs of inflation reduction of structural form, income or growth slowdown of unemployment, there are investments made, but not yet", believes.