In September 2022, the diffusion indices of wages and of the order-book level looked quite optimistic – 54% and 53% correspondingly. The diffusion index of output decreased by 11 percentage points, but this year this indicator is particularly unstable. The diffusion indices of the expected in...

In August 2021, the share of enterprises that reported that prices for purchased products rose again became very large (81%). This provoked an increase in the corresponding diffusion index, which for the fourth time per year reached 90% – the maximum value for the past 6 years. For the rest of...

In June 2021, the diffusion index of expected changes in incoming prices reached 97% – the highest value since 2003 and a typical level for 1993–1995. Apart from that, June can be called a very favorable month, taking into account high values of the level of capacities and labor utilization...

Investment statistics of the People's Republic of China are a source of many puzzles. Some investment data are of dubious quality, while the particular concepts of investment and their changing definitions over time are often poorly understood. Fixed asset investment, a remnant of the planned...