Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
Results of monthly survey on business situation of small and medium-sized enterprises for August 2026
A Government spokesman said that business sentiment among SMEs improved in August. The current diffusion index on business receipts reached a three-month high, and the outlook index rose to a six-month high. While the real estate sector outlook index remained above the 50-point threshold in the expansionary zone, the restaurants and retail trade sectors recorded the largest improvements in business outlook among various sectors. Meanwhile, the overall employment situation was largely steady.
The results of the survey should be interpreted with care. The survey solicits feedback from a panel sample of about 600 SMEs each month and the survey findings are thus subject to sample size constraint. Views collected from the survey refer only to those of respondents on their own companies rather than those on the respective sectors they are engaged in. Besides, in this type of opinion survey on expected business situation, the views collected in the survey are affected by the events in the community occurring around the time of enumeration, and it is difficult to establish precisely the extent to which respondents’ perception of the business situation accords with the underlying trends. For this survey, main bulk of the data were collected around the last week of the reference month. Issued at HKT 16:30
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