Dutch consumers remained less negative in June, marking the largest improvement in confidence in eleven years, data from the Central Bureau of Statistics showed on Monday.
The consumer confidence index rose to -39 in June from -46 in May.
This was the largest improvement in over eleven years, but consumer confidence remained far below the average of the past twenty years of -11, the survey said.
Among its components, the economic climate index increased to -64 from -72, indicating that households' assessment of the economic situation in the past twelve months and in the coming twelve months improved.
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