Some 43% of the interviewed executives of industrial companies said their investments had gone down this year, 39% said they had increased and 5% of companies made no investments at all (respective numbers for 2016 were 38%, 40% and 6%).
The majority of corporate executives (72%) predict the investments to remain unchanged in 2018, while 17% said they would go up, 5% expect them to decline and 6% plan no investments.