TABLE-Czech Jan business, consumer sentiment improves

    The Czech Statistical Bureau (CSU) 
released on Friday the following confidence indicators for 
January: 
 
CONFIDENCE INDICATORS            JAN 07     DEC 06     JAN 06 
 Composite Indicator             107.0      106.5      102.2 
 Business Indicator              107.4      107.0      101.5 
  Industry                       107.0      106.4       99.5 
  Construction                   103.3      104.8       95.9 
  Trade                          101.7       99.3      100.1 
  Services                       109.2      109.0      104.4 
 Consumer Indicator              105.0      104.3      105.7 
 
CONFIDENCE INDICATORS            JAN 07     DEC 06     JAN 06 
 Composite Indicator             +21.9      +21.3      +16.4 
 Business Indicator              +26.9      +26.4      +19.9 
  Industry                       +14.0      +13.3       +6.0 
  Construction                    -1.5        0.0       -8.5 
  Trade                          +24.3      +21.3      +22.3 
  Services                       +49.3      +49.0      +42.7 
 Consumer Indicator               +1.9       +1.2       +2.5 
 
    NOTE. The indices listed in the top table were set at 100 
based on the 2005 annual average of the balance of responses in 
the statistical bureau's surveys. The second table shows the 
balance of responses in the bureau's business cycle surveys. 
 
 (Reporting by Jan Lopatka in Prague) 
 ((Editing by Alan Crosby; prague.newsroom@reuters.com; Reuters 
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