KYIV, April 18 – Ukrainian businesses in the first quarter softened negative expectations of own development and the dynamics of the volume of production of goods and services in Ukraine in the next 12 months: the business activity expectations index increased to 91.2% from 83.5% in Q4 2022, according to the results of a survey of company executives conducted by the National Bank in the first quarter of 2023.

"Respondents' assessments softened for all components of the index. In addition, for the first time in the last four quarters, enterprises expect an increase in future sales of their own products," the NBU said.