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Shop spending may increase slightly in 2020
According to the latest KSH data, we left 6.3 percent less money in store cash registers in May than a year earlier. Thus, with a 10 percent decline, April was...
Read moreAnalysts expect retail sales to pick up
Data on retail sales in May may already pick up after the April low, according to analysts interviewed by MTI. According to a report published by the Central Statistical Office...
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In April, the number of guest nights decreased by 97 percent
In April, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the number of nights spent by foreign guests in commercial accommodation fell by 98.7 percent and the number of nights spent...
Read moreShops and borders are opening, and shopping tourism may just begin
According to recent statistics, Hungarian shopping tourists kept going on shopping trips until the last moment in early 2020. And they are likely to continue their march after the border...
Read moreKSH: retail sales decreased by 10.2 percent in April
In April, the turnover of retail stores decreased by 10.2 percent, according to both raw and calendar-adjusted data, compared to the same period of the previous year – the Central...
Read moreKSH: The complete census on agriculture will begin on Friday
The agricultural census of the Central Statistical Office (KSH), the Agricultural Census 2020, will start with an online filling phase on Friday, the KSH told MTI on Wednesday. According to...
Read moreThe foreign trade balance is still in surplus
In March, the value of exports in euros was 7.5 percent and imports were 4.2 percent higher than a year earlier, while the export surplus fell by 343 million euros...
Read moreKSH: GDP grew by 2.2 percent in the first quarter
The volume of gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter was 2.2 percent higher than in the same period of the previous year. According to seasonally, calendar-adjusted and balanced...
Read moreConsumption increased sigificantly
According to today’s statistics from the KSH, family spending jumped sharply in the first quarter of 2020, to 7%, due to cumulation. But the March pandemic limits have already pulled...
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Hungarians are afraid of losing their jobs
The population’s fear of unemployment has increased dramatically, which is no wonder, as tens of thousands have lost their jobs every week – portfolio.hu wrote. The KSH survey showed what...
Read moreKSH: investments decreased by 1.8 percent in the first quarter
Partly due to the domestic and international economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, a longer-term increase in investment was broken, with the volume of developments in the first quarter decreased...
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KSH: earnings grew by 9 percent in March
In March, the average gross earnings were 400,400 HUF, 9.0 percent more than a year before. In the first quarter, both gross and net average earnings increased by 9.1 percent...
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KSH: emplyment decreased by 56,000 February-April, compared to the year before
In the three-month period of February-April, the average number of employees was 4 million 436 thousand, 1.2 percent ie56 thousand lower than a year earlier – the Central Statistical Office...
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The potato market in Hungary is expanding
The area sown to field potatoes will increase by more than a fifth this year compared to last year, but longer-term expansion – in order to achieve self-sufficiency – would...
Read moreKSH: the Hungarian economy expanded in the first quarter
According to raw data, Hungary’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.2 percent according to the raw data, while the seasonal and calendar-effect adjusted balanced data shows a 2.0 percent...
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Double-digit sales growth for grocery stores in March
In March 2020 like-for-like retail volume sales grew by 4.4 percent; adjusted for calendar effects, the sales growth was 3.5 percent – reported the Central Statistical Office (KSH). Food and...
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Food prices grew further in April
Consumer prices were 2.4 percent higher in April 2020 than in April 2019. Food prices grew by 8.7 percent. Pork’s price augmented the most, by 28.9 percent. The price of...
Read moreKSH: a significant number of sole proprietorships suspended this spring
More than five times as many sole proprietorships ceased their activities until May as in the same period of previous years, according to a summary released by the Central Statistical...
Read moreKSH: agricultural producer prices increased by 10.3 percent in March
In March, agricultural purchase prices were 10.3 percent higher than a year before, and the annual price increase was 4.2 percentage points higher than in February, according to the latest...
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CSAOSZ again!
The National Association of Packaging and Material Handling (CSAOSZ) also announced the HUNGAROPACK Hungarian Packaging Competition in 2020. The 2020 national packaging competition will be held during an extraordinary...
Read moreKSH: consumer prices rose by 2.4 percent in April
In April, consumer prices were on average 2.4 percent higher than a year earlier. Compared to March, food prices rose 1.4 percent more than usual, which may have been due...
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What can come in tourism after the coronavirus pandemic
According to industry analysts, the number of guest nights will decrease by 43-48 percent this year, which will cause a loss of nearly 250-300 billion HUF in tourism – penzcentrum.hu...
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KSH: The number of guest nights decreased by 64.6 percent in March
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic the number of nights spent by foreign guests in commercial accommodation fell by 68.1 percent in March and the number of nights spent...
Read moreKSH: the turnover of retail stores increased in March
According to the raw data, the volume of retail store turnover in March was 4.4 percent, calendar-adjusted was 3.5 percent higher than in the same period of the previous year...
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Analysts: wage outflows slowed at the beginning of the year
At the beginning of the year, the pace of wage outflows slowed down, bonuses fell and real wage growth was curbed by high inflation. The impact of the coronavirus pandemic...
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KSH: earnings increased by 9.1 percent in February
In February, average gross earnings were 377,300 HUF, 9.1 percent higher than a year earlier. The economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic have not yet affected the first two months...
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KSH: producer prices rose by 4.3 percent in March
In March, domestic industrial sales prices rose by an average of 1.5 percent, of which prices in manufacturing rose by 3.3 percent and those in energy fell by 1.9 percent....
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KSH: unemployment was 3.7 percent in the first quarter
In the period of January-March, the average number of unemployed was 173 thousand, the unemployment rate was 3.7 percent, 0.2 percentage points higher than a year before. In March, about...
Read moreThe turnover of retail stores increased by 10.9 percent in February,
According to raw data, retail sales in February were 10.9 percent higher and calendar-adjusted 11.3 percent higher than a year before – the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reported on Friday....
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KSH: average earnings increased by 9.2 percent in January
National average gross earnings in January were 375 thousand HUF, up 9.2 percent year-on-year, while excluding the public sector they were HUF 385 thousand 300 HUF, up 8.8 percent. For...
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