Finance Least-Trusted Industry for Third Year in Edelman Survey
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Financial services and banks were the least-trusted industries for the third year, with half of people surveyed saying they could be trusted to do what’s right, according to an annual poll by public relations firm Edelman.
The numbers improved from 45 percent who trusted financial companies in the survey released last year and 47 percent who trusted banks. Technology companies topped the ranking again with 77 percent, down two percentage points from a year earlier, according to the poll of the so-called informed public ages 25 to 64 in 20 countries.