The outlook for business investment remains positive, with high
capacity utilisation rates and a generally favourable outlook for the domestic economy providing considerable incentive to invest.
Retail sales picked up in the December quarter in most countries, and
capacity utilisation rates are at levels not seen since before the Asian financial crisis.
«The industrial
capacity utilisation rate in the first three quarters reached 76.6 %, 3.5 percentage points higher than the same period last year.»
Not exact matches
Growth at this pace has exceeded the
rate of growth of the economy's productive potential, generating declining unemployment and rising levels of
capacity utilisation, and is likely to have contributed to the upstream price pressures described above.
They examine the problems of under -
utilisation, the UK's productivity
rates in comparison with other members of the G7 and the issues of operating at maximum
capacity for prolonged periods of time.
For example, additional
capacity beyond existing plants is only required by 2020 if power generation growth exceeds 4 % year and coal plants are run at
utilisation rate of 45 % or less.
Digitalisation of the oil industry enables better targeting of drilling, higher ultimate recovery
rates as well as lower outage
rates and higher
capacity utilisation.
«Investment demand will come back in a big way supported by low interest
rates, low leverage and high
capacity utilisation,» said Sashi Krishnan, who manages $ 4.5 billion (Rs 20,700 crore) in Indian equities as chief investment officer at Pune, India - based Bajaj Allianz, India's No. 2 private insurer.