Business Roundtable: CEOs Expecting Improved Sales, See Healthcare as Top Concern
CEOs see healthcare as top cost pressure
The results of Business Roundtable’s fourth quarter 2009 CEO Economic Outlook Survey are out, and they show that the CEOs of America’s leading companies anticipate increased capital expenditures and sales in the next six months –but they do not expect employment to significantly improve.
When asked about cost pressures, the CEOs cited healthcare as their top concern for the first half of 2010. In all, about one-third of CEOs named healthcare costs as having the greatest impact. The CEOs polled also expect pressure from pension, labor, litigation, energy and materials expenditures. (See illustration above.) (more…)
