Manufacturers Plan Substantial Increase of Investments for 2015, But Are Unlikely to Succeed – Construction Companies Expect to Reduce Their Investments. Results of the WIFO Autumn 2014 Investment Survey

Surprisingly manufacturers expect to boost their investments substantially in 2015. Considering the weak recovery and an economic situation that has hardly improved at all it is unlikely that their expectations will come true. In 2014, manufacturers raised their investments by 10 percent, according to recent data. In spite of this increase, investments in nominal terms in 2014 were below the level of 2008, before the financial crash and economic crisis. After an extraordinarily large increase in investments in 2014, construction companies expect a decline for 2015.