Media Alert: Deloitte Cfo Signals™: Cfo Confidence, Risk Appetite and Forecasts in Q2 2025

CFO Confidence Just Suffered the Largest Decline in Years. Here’s Why

A new quarterly Deloitte survey of top company financial chiefs found their high level of optimism from early this year dropped sharply in Q2, largely because of worries about U.S. trade policies.

CFO confidence experienced a sharp drop in Q2

Deloitte reports the second-largest quarterly drop in finance chiefs’ optimism within the last four years.

Media Alert: Deloitte CFO Signals™: CFO Confidence, Risk Appetite and Forecasts in Q2 2025 - PressReach

NEW YORK, July 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — What: Deloitte’s “Q2 2025 CFO Signals Report” (longitudinal data) Who: Steve Gallucci, National leader of Deloitte’s CFO Program When: July 8 at 6 a.m. EST Where: https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/leadership/cfo-survey-data-dashboard.html Details: Deloitte’s latest CFO Signals report — a quarterly gauge of the sentiment of North America’s top finance leaders — shows a marked decline in…

CFOs lose appetite for risk in Q2 amid economy worries, says Deloitte

By Larry DignanChief financial officers are paring expectations for the economy, revenue, earnings and capital investments for the second quarter as they become more risk averse, according to Deloitte's latest CFO Signals report. Deloitte's quarterly report showed that CFO sentiment fell in the second quarter as the CFO confidence score was 5.4, indicating medium confidence, down from 6.4 in the first quarter. The first quarter tally indicated h…