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Labour market ends 2025 with a positive hiring balance of 77,074 jobs
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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
Budget execution starts 2017 with primary balance outperformance on target-beating revenues
The budget primary balance recorded a surplus of 1.02 billion euros in the first month of 2017, broadly similar to that posted a year ago, the Finance Ministry (MoF) preliminary budget execution bulletin revealed on Tuesday.
This year’s primary surplus outperformed the target by 342 million, largely reflecting higher than expected revenues (by 340 million), while primary expenditure and Public Investment Budget (PIB) balance came in 58 and 41 million lower than target.
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