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Perspectives for a significant reduction of business investment in 2009.
Investment survey
Perspectives for a significant reduction of business investment in 2009. - 1st Semi-annual 2009
09 July 2009

Summary
According to the opinions expressed on the April 2009 Investment Survey (occurred between the 1st April and 30th June 2009), the entrepreneurial investment might record a change rate of -10.1% in 2009 in nominal terms. The same survey points to a nominal change rate of -0.6% for 2008. These results represent downward revisions relatively to the perspectives revealed in the previous survey (-1.3 p.p. and -1.5 p.p. for 2008 and 2009, respectively).
Among the investment objectives, the perspectives for 2009 point to an increase of the relative weight of the investment in rationalization and restructuration and to a decrease of the relative weight of the investment oriented to the expansion of the production capacity.
As main limitative factor for business investment identified in the survey, the relative weight of the deterioration of the sales perspectives increased.

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