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Perspectives of business investment decrease in 2011. Investment for 2010 revised downward comparing with the results of the previous survey.
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Perspectives of business investment decrease in 2011. Investment for 2010 revised downward comparing with the results of the previous survey. - 2nd Semi-annual 2010
31 January 2011

Summary

According to the opinions expressed on the October 2010 Investment Survey (occurred between the 1st October of 2010 and 20th January 2011), the entrepreneurial investment is expected to decrease by 3.7% in 2011 in nominal terms. The same survey points to a reduction of 4.6% of the investment in 2010, which represents a significant downward revision comparing with the perspectives revealed in the previous survey (-10.2 p.p.).
Among the investment objectives, from 2010 to 2011, the perspectives points to an increase of the relative weight of the investment in replacement and rationalization and restructuration and a decrease of the relative weight of the investment for the extension of the production capacity.
As main limitative factor for business investment identified in the survey, in 2010 and 2011, the deterioration of the sales perspectives continues to be the factor mentioned by a larger number of firms. The uncertainty about the investments profitability is also very significant, although it assumes less importance in 2011 comparing with the previous year.
From this publication onwards, the information from the Investment Survey is based on a new sample and it was also adopted a new classification by industry, namely, the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community Revision 2 (NACE rev.2) (see detailed information at the end of this press release).


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