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PMI starts 2026 strongly, despite cost and supply chain pressures
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Credit to corporations drives loans growth for 7.9 pct YoY in Dec
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Private sector deposits end 2025 at highest level since summer 2010
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Energy drives drop of 2.1 pct YoY in producer prices at close of 2025
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Retail sales growth slows to 1.7 pct YoY in Nov on back of sharp drop in fuel transactions
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Unemployment rate down to 7.5 pct in Dec, lowest since Nov 2008
Budget primary deficit reaches 9.09 bln for H1, up almost 3 bln on 2020
The budget primary balance was confirmed at a deficit of 9.09 billion euros in the first half of 2021, compared with a deficit of 6.1 billion in the same period of 2020, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution bulletin for June released on Monday.
The primary balance beat the target set in the 2022-2025 medium-term fiscal strategy (MTFS) by 825 million euros. Expenditure excluding interest payments and the public investment budget came to 26.7 billion euros. Net revenues came to 21.97 billion eur...
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