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Unemployment rate edges up to 9.9 pct in July
EconomyMacroeconomycompared with the same month of 2023, amounting to 465,167, an 11.8 percent drop. Unemployment... last year saw 28,761 more hires, a year-on-year drop of 4,800 jobs. For the first half of 2024
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Building permits maintain recovery, up 12.5 pct YoY in Sep
EconomyMacroeconomyvolume was also down by 7.6 percent. The largest regional drop is in Epirus in northwestern Greece... drop of 4.3 percent. The European Commission’s latest business sentiment indicators for November
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Newsletter 118 - 12/05/2017
in its winter forecast released on February 13. The drop is attributed to the negative carry-over... point to net hirings of 125,770, up by around 1,000 from last year’s figure of 124,465. This year’s... this week and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was due to take up the issue with IMF managing director
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Producer prices skyrocket by 48.8 pct in Apr as energy products shoot up by 90 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s Producer Price Index (PPI) recorded another explosive rise in April, shooting up by 48.8.... The index was in negative territory for most of 2020 and up until March 2021, when it grew annually... products by 19.7 percent. Goods sold to the foreign market were up by 50.9 percent, with refined
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Retail sales up by 14.1 pct in Aug, volume rises by 4.4 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyThe growth in Greece’s retail sales picked up pace in August with a rise of 14.1 percent year... was up by 0.9 percent. Compared to August 2021, automotive fuel was up 23.4 percent, non-food was up by 10.6 percent and food sales were up by 14.2 percent. Aside from fuels, solid growth was seen
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Newsletter 122 - 09/06/2017
and members are still hoping that the Eurogroup will light up a path to QE and market access. Tsipras... and 2020. General govt primary cash surplus edges up OECD expects economy to grow by 1.1 pct this year The general government (gg) primary cash surplus edged up by 35 million euros from the previous year
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Newsletter 247 -10/04/2020
measures have been successful, but also stepping up restrictions ahead of Easter. The government... in the build-up to Greek Orthodox Easter on April 18. The aim is to prevent city dwellers from... weeks ago urging it to speed up the decongestion of the island camps in order to be able to manage
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Foreign arrivals push travel surplus up by 6.6 pct in July, average expenditure falls
EconomyMacroeconomyby a rise in foreign arrivals, which went up by 10.2 percent during the period to 5.14 million... countries went up by 8.7 percent compared to the same time last year to 3.4 million visitors. Those from.... Visitors from Russia were up by 11.4 percent while those from the US fell by 6.2 percent. Overall
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Seasonality drives retail sales up by 12.1 pct in Jun, but cost-of-living crisis evident in volume data
EconomyMacroeconomyThe growth in Greece’s retail sales picked up pace again in June, rising by 12.1 percent year... in June, after a decrease of 3.7 percent in the previous month. The volume’s monthly movement was up..., in one more signal of the cost-of-living impact. Compared to June 2021, automotive fuel was up 32.9
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Newsletter 410 - 02/02/2024
a drop of 5.2 pct. Compared to November 2022, automotive fuel was down by 13.2 pct, non-food was up by 2... a political threat to the centre-right administration. Apart from speeding up compensation payments... restored.EconomyProperty market difficulties indicate time up for Golden VisaAlthough media scrutiny of the issue
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