In May business tendency is assessed less negative than in the previous month in most presented kinds of activities, although further deterioration of current assessments (“diagnosis”) and improvement of expectations (“forecast”) are observed. The latter, however, remain at historically negative levels.

In the first four months of 2020, there were less dwellings completed than the year before. The number of dwellings for which permits have been granted or which have been registered with a construction project and the number of dwellings in which construction has begun also decreased.

According to preliminary data construction and assembly production (in constant prices) carried out domestically by construction enterprises employing more than 9 persons was in April 2020 by 0.9% lower than a year before (against an increase by 17.4% the year before) and by 2.3% higher compared with March 2020 (against an increase by 7.1% the year before).

In April 2020 retail sales at constant prices were by 22.9% lower than the year before (against a growth of 11.9% in April 2019). Compared with March 2020 retail sales decreased by 12.3%. In the period of January-April2 2020 retail sales y/y were by 5.8% lower (against a growth of 6.5% in 2019).