Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Aukutsionek Sergey Author-Workplace-Name: Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences Author-Name: Yegorov Andrey Author-Workplace-Name: Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences Author-Name: Bachirova Inessa Author-Workplace-Name: Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences Author-Name: Serzhantova Tatyana Author-Workplace-Name: Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences Title: Survey of Current Business (April-July 2021) Title: Хозяйственное обозрение (апрель-июль 2021 г.) Abstract: In many respects, April 2021 was very similar to March 2021, which means that it looked quite optimistic. However, there were notable decline among the three-month expectations. Thus, the diffusion index of expected changes in the financial condition decreased by 12 percentage points and amounted to 47%, while the similar index of the order book level lost 15 p. p. at once and amounted to 44%. At the same time, the current situation with orders turned out to be so favorable that their level (relative to the normal monthly level = 100%) reached 94%, which is the highest in the entire almost 30-year history of observations. Keywords: Russia, industry, industrial enterprises, price level, wages, employment, output, investment, indebtedness to banks, order-book level, stocks of finished products, capacity utilization rate, financial situation, production restrictive factors Classification-JEL: D22, D24, G31, L23, P23 Journal: Russian Economic Developments Year: 2021 Issue: 7 Month: July Pages: 24-31 File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/r2175.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:r2175