KSH: The investment appetite of businesses operating in food-type store mixed trade has also declined

Within the 5.5 percent decrease in investments compared to the previous quarter, the seasonally adjusted volume of construction investments shrank by 6.3 percent, while that of machinery and equipment investments shrank by 1.7 percent.

Compared to the same period of the previous year, the volume of construction investments, representing more than one-sixth of the output value, decreased by 6.6 percent, and that of machinery and equipment investments, which accounted for approximately one third, by 5.5 percent. Within machinery investments, the volume of imported machines as well as domestically produced ones decreased.