Demand for Companies for Credit Increases 9.1%

Companies' search for credit grew 9.1% in November 2019 compared to the same month in 2018, as shown by the Serasa Experian Credit Companies Demand Indicator. This is the eighth consecutive increase in the data, whose increase was pulled by the Service sector, with an increase of 14.1% in one year, followed by Trade (5.0%) and Industry (4.4%). In the accumulated eleven months of 2019, the overall variation was 8.6%. In the analysis from January to November, the Services segment grew by 13.1%, followed by Trade (5.0%) and Industry (4.3%). According to the survey, the largest variation was in the Southeast region, with an increase of 10.2% in the annual comparison.