60% of industrial firms have investment plans for 2018 - GUS
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As many as 59.5 percent of industrial companies are planning investments in 2018, compared to 69 percent of industrial firms that have made investments this year, according to GUS. In the construction industry, 38.2 percent have investment plans for next year. Industrial companies usually finance investment from their own sources (92.5 percent in October), bank loans (27.3 percent) and leasing (33.4 percent). Construction firms also use their own financing most frequently (85.6 percent), while 27.8 percent use bank loans and 49.6 percent use leasing.
