66% of companies in the country plan to maintain or increase their investments in 2023, according to the recent Report of the Monthly Survey of Macroeconomic Expectations: March 2023.
The document prepared by the Central Reserve Bank (BCRP) shows that, at the sectoral level, the branches of Commerce (37%) and Services (30%) are the most optimistic regarding maintaining the flow of capital in this period.
Meanwhile, 25% of the companies in the Mining and Hydrocarbons sector, one of the main sources of income from taxes on the treasury, estimate that they will increase their investments this year, in line with the announcements by the Ministry of Economy and Finance and Energy and Mines.
However, the sectors that show the greatest investment contraction according to the BCRP survey are, precisely, Mining and Hydrocarbons and Construction, which reflect a negative expectation of 50% and 42%, respectively.
Globally, 37% of the companies surveyed in the Services, Commerce, Construction, Manufacturing, and Mining and Hydrocarbons sectors expect the investments announced for this year to remain unchanged.
Only 34% of them expect that, at the end of the first quarter of 2023, investments will recede, compared to 28% who expect positive growth from them.
Source: Larepublica
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