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The perception of companies’ manager over the trends in the evolution of the domestic economic activity in the February – April 2016 period is still optimistic, as the National Institute of Statistics (INS) shows.
According to the business tendency survey of February 2016, managers from manufacturing forecast a moderate growth of the production volume (balance +10 percent) for the next three months. Significant increase is expected in the manufacture of road transport vehicles, of trailers and semitrailers and in the activity of printing and reproduction of recorded media (balances + 24 percent). For the prices of the industrial products a relative stability is forecast for the next three months (balance -1 percent). Regarding the number of employees, a relative stability is forecast, the balance being 0 percent per total manufacturing.
The same estimations noted by INS reveal that there will be a moderate increase in the production volume of the construction activity for the next three months (balance +7 percent) and in the stock of contracts and orders (balance +7 percent). Managers forecast a relative stability in the number of employees (balance 0 percent). As to the prices of construction works, a relative stability is forecast (balance 0 percent).
In the retail trade sector, managers estimate a growth tendency in the economic activity (balance +32 percent) for the next three months. Employers forecast for the next three months a moderate increase in the number of employees (balance +8 percent). There will be an increase in the volume of orders placed by the trade units to the suppliers of goods (balance +22 percent). For the next three months, the managers of trade companies estimate a relative stability of retail selling prices (balance -5 percent).
The demand of services (turnover) will have a moderate growth in the next three months (balance +7 percent). In the services sector, a relative stability in the number of employees is forecast (balance +3 percent). According to the managers’ opinion, the selling or invoice prices of provisions will have a trend of relative stability (balance +2 percent).
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