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Economic sentiment rises to 91.9 points in February despite drop in consumer confidence
EconomyMacroeconomy. Compared to last year, the EEI has fallen by 5.8 points. Meanwhile, compared to February 2020, the ESI... year, consumer confidence has dropped by 41.4 points. Industry confidence fell by 0.6 points month-on-month to stand at -10.6 points. Year-on-year, industry confidence has fallen by 15.1 points
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Car sales drop by 18.8 pct in February
EconomyMacroeconomy. In February 2020, the year-on-year change showed a rise of 7.7 percent. Car sales for the month came to 13,464 compared to 16,589 in February last year, a drop of 18.8 percent. Out of the total, passenger... up of lorries (2,474) and buses (140). Motorcycle sales were unchanged from a year earlier
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Current account shows deficit of 436 mln in January
EconomyMacroeconomyeuros year-on-year (YoY). According to the BoG, January’s performance is due to an improvement in all... came to 1.57 billion euros, declining by 21.2 percent year-on-year (YoY). The services balance came... million, dropping by 97.6 percent YoY. The travel balance for last year came to 97.7 million
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Economic sentiment rises to 96.9 points in March as all sectors improve
EconomyMacroeconomyto last year, the EEI has fallen by 6.5 points. Meanwhile, compared to March 2020, the ESI has decreased... by 6.7 points month-on-month and came to -39.5 in March. Compared to the same month last year, consumer... at -7.5 points. Year-on-year, industry confidence has worsened by 10.6 points. The services index
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General govt primary cash deficit at 1.99 bln in February; arrears jump
EconomyMacroeconomymonths of the year, compared with a surplus of 1.42 billion euros in the same period of 2020... year-on-year (YoY) decline was noted in social security funds (SSFs) with a fall of 773 million euros from a year earlier, bringing the total for the month to a deficit of 115 million euros
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General govt primary deficit at 3.87 bln in March; spending soars
EconomyMacroeconomymonths of the year, compared with a surplus of 1.14 billion euros in the same period of 2020... the state budget, the biggest year-on-year (YoY) decline was noted in social security funds (SSFs) with a fall of 507 million euros from a year earlier, bringing the total for the month to a deficit
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General govt primary cash deficit at 6.66 bln in April; arrears fall
EconomyMacroeconomymonths of the year, compared with a deficit of 1.76 billion euros in the same period of 2020... the state budget, the biggest year-on-year (YoY) decline was noted in social security funds (SSFs) with a fall of 281 million euros from a year earlier, bringing the total for the month to a deficit
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MTFS forecasts growth of up to 6.2 pct in swift economic recovery from Covid
EconomyMacroeconomyeuros and 1.05 billion euros this year. Deferrals of tax obligations total 1.7 billion euros in last year and this year. The MTFS sees this fiscal performance corrected next year, when the budget... from 2022, seen dropping to 350 billion, from 352.5 billion this year. In 2019, the debt stock
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Q1 unemployment at 17.1 pct amid drop in employed, rise in inactives
EconomyMacroeconomy) of the year, increasing by 0.9 percentage points from the last quarter of 2020, Hellenic Statistical... and remaining unchanged compared to the same quarter of the last year. The number of people employed... by 5.9 percent compared to the same quarter of the previous year. ELSTAT noted that absences from
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Car sales shoot up by 40.3 pct YoY in June, continuing recent trend
EconomyMacroeconomyyear-on-year (YoY) in June, after a rise of 54.1 percent in May, Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) data showed on Friday. In June 2020, the year-on-year change had shown a drop of 24.7 percent. Car sales in June came to 22,690 compared to 16,170 in June last year, an increase of 40.3 percent
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