中小景況感、震災直後より悪化　コロナで１０年ぶり水準―４月日商調査

　日本商工会議所が３０日発表した４月の中小企業の景況感によると、「好転」の割合から「悪化」の割合を引いた指数が前月から１１．４ポイント悪化し、マイナス６０．４となった。約１０年ぶりの水準で東日本大震災直後の２０１１年４月のマイナス５７．７よりも悪かった。新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大が中小を直撃している格好だ。
　５～７月の先行き見通しはマイナス７１．１と一段と悪化。リーマン・ショックの影響が残る０９年２月の過去最悪の水準（マイナス７３．４）に迫る。（2020/04/30-15:51）

Business sentiment among small and medium-sized firms in Japan fell to its lowest level in over a decade in April amid the coronavirus crisis, the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry said Thursday.
   The business sentiment diffusion index, or the percentage of companies seeing good business conditions minus that of those feeling the opposite, deteriorated 11.4 points from the previous month to minus 60.4, the JCCI said.
   According to the business group, the latest DI stood worst since January 2010, when it came to minus 62.3 amid Japanese small businesses still miring in a slump brought on by the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers in September 2008. It was also weaker than minus 57.7 recorded in April 2011 on the heels of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated eastern and northeastern Japan regions on March 11.
   The DI is expected to plunge to minus 71.1 in May-July, close to the worst-ever level of minus 73.4, scored in February 2009.
   The survey covered 2,709 JCCI member firms in the construction, manufacturing, wholesale, retail and services industries. Of them, 79.5 pct gave valid responses.