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Companies are recruiting more cautiously now than they planned at the beginning of the year
The average number of applicants remains particularly high in the Hungarian labor market, but in the second quarter of 2025, the overall number of applicants decreased by 2.6% compared to...
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The GKI business climate index decreased slightly in July
According to a survey by GKI Economic Research Ltd. – supported by the EU – consumers’ outlook did not change in July compared to June, but the business sector became...
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At a suffocating pace: the corporate world is still shrinking, but the decline is slowing
The number of domestic companies continues to decline, but the pace of decline is slowing. Based on company trends in the first half of 2025, the desire to found companies...
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Sándor Czomba: the purchasing power of salaries has been continuously increasing for more than 1.5 years
Brussels has been pursuing a flawed economic policy for a long time, supporting war instead of peace and giving all available money to Ukraine. The government is not spending Hungary’s...
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GKI: Companies’ price increase intentions have noticeably decreased this year, but cost pressure is still present
In the past part of 2025, price increase intentions have weakened almost continuously and noticeably in several sectors of the Hungarian business sector. By June 2025, these expectations had fallen...
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The key to sustainable economic recovery is the energy renovation of the building stock
The energy efficiency modernization of domestic residential buildings represents an economic growth opportunity, a socially supported investment direction and a climate protection step. As a member of the professional association...
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NGM: the government will do everything to further increase retail turnover
The government is working tirelessly to ensure that families can manage with more money and thus spend more, which is why it is implementing Europe’s largest tax reduction program. The...
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GKI analysis: Why do Hungarian households live more poorly than anyone else in the EU?
Imagine that the residents of every EU country shop in a large supermarket! Everyone tries to put the same amount in their basket, but not everyone ends up buying the...
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K&H Analyst Commentary: The forint is on the rise
The forint, the Polish zloty and the Czech koruna are among the best performers in the emerging market league this year. However, there are risks for the coming weeks. Although...
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Fitch: Global economy recovering as tariff war eases – China and US may drive growth
Fitch Ratings expects stronger-than-expected economic performance in 2025: according to the international credit rating agency’s updated forecast, the global economy could expand by 2.2 percent this year. Although this is...
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The special retail tax will remain until 2026
The new tax package announced recently brings significant changes for both the actors of the Hungarian economy and the population. The legislation raised several provisions previously regulated in emergency decrees...
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MNB Director: The central bank expects 4.7 percent annual inflation this year
Inflation is expected to exceed the central bank’s tolerance band for the remainder of 2025, with inflation forecast at 4.7 percent this year, and the rate of price increases could...
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NGM: tourism continues to boom – more than 1.7 million tourists arrived at domestic accommodations in May
The government is constantly working to attract more and more foreign guests to our country, and to allow Hungarian families to spend more and more on travel and recreation. In...
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GKI Analysis: The GKI business climate index remained unchanged in June, but companies’ inflation expectations decreased further
According to a survey by GKI Economic Research Ltd. – conducted with the support of the EU – consumers became slightly more pessimistic in June compared to May, but the...
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K&H: financial security? the picture is very mixed
26 percent of middle-aged Hungarians have an income of 589 thousand forints, which is enough money to live without problems, but they do not have enough to save – this...
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Foreign direct investment in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe fell by a quarter last year
Foreign direct investment in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe fell by a quarter last year, according to a newly published study by the Vienna-based wiiw economic research institute. However, some...
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There are more questions than answers: what do Eurostat’s latest consumption data about Hungary actually reveal?
Eurostat’s 2024 consumption and economic statistics have been released, and as is usually the case at such times, the debate immediately flared up: is Hungary really a leader in the...
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K&H: investors will receive a missing compass
The K&H Securities – Investor Sentiment Index has been launched, which measures the capital market expectations of K&H Securities’ retail investors on a weekly basis. Based on the responses of...
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Assets under management of responsible funds have quadrupled in one year
According to the recently published data of the Hungarian National Bank for 2024, the assets of responsible funds have quadrupled: the net asset value exceeded 1,275 billion forints. Of the...
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There is a great deal of interest in the schemes announced by EXIM Hungary in the Demján Sándor Program
There is a high level of interest in the schemes announced by EXIM Hungary in the Demján Sándor Program: more than two-thirds of the product range’s expanded framework of 600...
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GKI Analysis: We invest, but we don’t make progress
GKI has recently prepared a comprehensive series of analyses on the labor productivity of the sectors of the Hungarian national economy. The results show that the labor productivity of Hungarian...
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Opten: The number of companies in Hungary may drop below half a thousand
A lasting and profound transformation is taking place in the Hungarian corporate sector: while nearly half a million partnerships were still operating in May, the number has been continuously decreasing...
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KSH: the gross average salary was 708,300 forints, 9.8 percent higher than a year earlier
In April 2025, the average gross salary of full-time employees was 708,300 forints, and the average net salary was 486,500 forints. The average gross salary was 9.8 percent, the average...
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Liz Truss: We need to return to more realistic trade
We need to return to more realistic trade based on agreements between countries, said Liz Truss, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, at the Budapest Global Dialogue event in...
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K&H: Hungarian economy could grow by 2.5-3 percent next year
Based on the current, uncertain outlook, after the 0.5 percent growth expected this year, an acceleration can be expected in 2026. All this may be accompanied by an annual average...
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The NKFH imposed a fine of almost 3 million forints during the national strawberry inspection
The National Trade and Consumer Protection Authority (NKFH) has concluded its four-week nationwide strawberry inspection. According to the inspections covering the entire commercial range, every tenth product had a problem;...
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GKI Analysis: The financial sector is starved but efficient
As part of our productivity analysis series, following the manufacturing, construction, retail, and ICT sectors, we now examine the financial and insurance sector. In 2023, this sector accounted for an...
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The Hungarian economy is facing increasingly strong headwinds
Despite the uptick in household consumption, Hungary’s economic growth is expected to reach no more than 0.8% this year due to the unfavourable external environment. Meanwhile, declining global oil prices...
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Retail sales growth accelerated in Russia, unemployment stagnated
Russia’s retail sales growth accelerated and unemployment stagnated in April. The Russian statistics agency reported on Thursday that retail sales growth accelerated to 1.9 percent year-on-year in April from 1.3...
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KSH: Economic performance stagnated in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the first quarter of 2024
The volume of Hungary’s gross domestic product stagnated in the first quarter of 2025 according to raw data, and was 0.4 percent lower than the same period of the previous...
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