REGIONAL NETWORK

Service industry contacts expect slightly stronger growth in household services and growth in commercial services to remain approximately

Norges Bank’s regional network contacts report that output growth has been weak over the past three months, in line with their expectations in the previous survey, in February.. Solid

Contacts reported that overall prices had risen moderately over the past 12 months. The pace of 

As before summer, they expect wages to increase by around 3.2% (Chart 8). A number of contacts cite the recovery of the oil industry in particular as having pushed up wage

Contacts expected increased housing construction and higher public investment to boost growth to some extent ahead and envisaged fairly moderate growth over the next

Contacts had revised up their expectations of growth ahead somewhat, and expected overall growth to be moderate over the next 6 months.. Several contacts in this survey

Although construction continues to report the highest capacity utilisation, a number of enterprises have more spare capacity than in August, owing to reduced activity (Chart 10).

Overall employment levels in enterprises have fallen somewhat over the past 3 months and developments have been slightly weaker than contacts envisaged in August.. No private sector