Business tendency in manufacturing, construction, trade and services - November 2024



Seasonally as well as non-seasonally general business climate indicators released in November are at lower or similar level as compared to the ones presented in October. In relation to the previous month, the highest decline is observed in construction, whereas situation in accommodation and food service activities section alongside information and communication section positively stands out, where business tendency is better than in October. In majority of studied areas, month-to-month level of "diagnostic" components does not change or deteriorates, while "forecasting" ones deteriorate significantly.
Entities from financial and insurance activities section (plus 21.4) assess business tendency most positively1, however below the long-term mean (plus 25.4). The most pessimistic assessments are made by entities from manufacturing section (minus 11.7).
In the current month – answers provided between 1st and 10th of each month – supplementary set of questions on 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.