Aktualności
Invoice payments
According to a study commissioned by the Debtors Registry of BIG InfoMonitor, delays or failure to pay contractors affected every 16 companies. An even worse situation applies to service companies, among which even 9 in the above due to the lack of payment for invoices may lose liquidity. Only in the first quarter of this year, 222 companies had to deal with the bankruptcy or the beginning of the restructuring.
Happy resident
The United Nations has presented the latest report of the happiest countries to live (World Happiness Report 2018). The winner of the statement is Finland. Poland was only in the 40th position. The research concerned 156 countries. Here are the top ten countries in this ranking: 1. Finland (7.769); 2. Denmark (7.600); 3. Norway (7.554); 4. Iceland (7.494); 5. The Netherlands (7.488); 6. Switzerland (7.480); 7. Sweden (7.343); 8. New Zealand (7.307); 9. Canada (7.278); 10. Austria (7.246)
Poland's rating at the "A-" level
The Fitch rating agency maintained Poland's rating at the "A-" level with a stable outlook. In the commentary, Fitch emphasizes strong macroeconomic foundations, and the support for these factors is reasonably conducted economic policy and a strong banking sector. The basis for these positive assessments are the results for 2018. And especially the good fiscal situation of the state budget in 2018, related to better tax collection.
The first quarter on the capital market
The first quarter of 2019 ended with an increase in major benchmarks. The broad market index WIG ended March's quotations at 59.668,03 points, losing 0.4 percent on the month scale. but on a scale of the whole quarter up by 3.4 percent. The WIG20 index increased its quotes by 1.6% compared to the end of the previous year. reaching the level of 2,332.09 points, while on a monthly basis, it lost 0.9 percent. The market leader was the mWIG40 mid-market index, which after a March rise of 0.4 percent. ended the quarter with a score of 4,149.50 points, or 6.1 percent. above the value recorded at the end of December last year.