Gerjali: Business expectations and trends are negative

The current business situation in Kosovo in the third quarter of this year has marked a decline.

So said the third quarter of this year's report by the Kosovo Economic Oda.

O Chairman EK, Safet Gerjaliu, has said that large and retail trade, meat processing production, wood recycling, metals and construction materials, construction and services are involved.

He said that in this sample OEK has used 533 companies of these sectors

What characterizes this quarter is that the current business situation in Kosovo for this quarter is presented with a trend of decline. Over the three months or two, the trend has been with a greater dose of optimism and for the first time we have a three-month drop in. However, TM3 of 2017, based on business perspective, manifests itself in an overall stable business situation. The most current business climate and business expectations are negative trends that distinguish this quarter from the last one. The expectations for employment that we have as a priority in this three-month-old, 68 percent of the businesses expect the number of employees to remain the same, negative expectations come from the construction sector, which represents in this research, the most pessimistic expectations, but it is understood that this sector is characterized even with the seasonal aspect of the financial aspect of what is the purchasing power of the citizens<18x1>, Gexhaliou said.

He also said that the privacy indicator has marked a 10.2% drop in this quarter, while compared to the three-month period we have a better quarter, of 4. Five percent.

In view of this agenda, positive steps have been made, and the latest World Bank report” can also testify, Gerxhaliu said.

Olivera Chen, a researcher at OEK, has said the current Kosovo business situation is estimated to be good stability.

Kosovo's current business situation is estimated to be good stability. Although compared with the first three months, we have an 11 - percent decline. The decline is due to the poor expectations coming from the construction sector, which in the preceding quarter has had the most well-lapped expectations somewhere at an 80 percent value they have claimed to expect the business situation to increase. As for the sectoral aspect, the production sector is estimated to have higher expectations. At the municipal level is the Ferizaj region, which with 33.3 per cent Ferizaj production companies assess the current business situation as very good”, Cen said.

Its expectations for the next six months compared to the previous three months are very low. This is attributed to the negative trends coming from the trade and construction sector.