Business tendency in manufacturing, construction, trade and services - August 2024
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Indicators released in August show overall stabilisation of the economic situation. The assessments of both seasonally and non-seasonally adjusted general business climate indicator for most of presented kinds of activities are in fact at a similar level as compared to the ones presented in July. The situation stands out positively in wholesale trade, where business tendency is assessed favourable and better than in the previous month, however in accommodation and food service activities section it is slightly negative and at the same time worse than in July. In majority of studied areas, month-to-month level of "diagnostic" as well as "forecasting" components does not change or improves.
Entities from financial and insurance activities section (plus 21.6) assess business tendency most positively1, however below the long-term mean (plus 25.5). The most pessimistic assessments are made by entities from manufacturing section (minus 8.2).
In the current month – answers provided between 1st and 10th of each month – supplementary set of questions regarding investments has been added to the survey (results in table 2).
1 By the phrase „positive” (positive value of the indicator) we consider a situation when percentage of entrepreneurs expecting improvement of their entities’ economic situation in the next three months or observing such an improvement outweighs percentage of entrepreneurs expecting its deterioration.
