I also agree with the comment that susceptibility arises essentially from global developments and hence I will treat this as another advice to us to be vigilant in managing the process of integration with the global economy. The current turbulence in global financial markets appears to be particularly difficult to comprehend.
This is because investment plans of nonmanufacturing firms fell significantly below the previous year, although plans of manufacturing firms at this time of the fiscal year grew at a somewhat higher pace compared to fiscal 1996.