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KSH: agricultural producer prices increased by 1.2 percent in April
Agricultural producer prices increased by 1.2 percent in April, compared to a year before. This is due to the 3.1 percent increase in the price of vegetable products and a...
Read moreKSH: retail sales increased by 7.2 percent in May
According to the raw data, the volume of retail stores’ turnover was 7.2 percent higher, while calendar effect adjusted was 7.8 percent higher, compared to the same period of the...
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KSH foreign trade surplus was 517 million euros in April
In April, the volume of exports increased by 11.7 and its imports grew by 16.2 percent, compared to the same period of the previous year, while the foreign trade surplus...
Read moreRetail has been growing steadily for 58 months
Retail sales have been growing steadily for 58 months – Pomázi Gyula, the Deputy Minister of State of the Ministry of Innovation and Technology (ITM) told M1 news channel on...
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KSH: employment continued to increase
In the March-May period, the average number of employees was 4 million 457 thousand, 64 thousand more than a year before. The employment rate of the 15-64 year olds grew...
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KSH: growth in earnings continued to accelerate
In April 2018, the gross average earnings reached 340,600 forints, which is 12.6 percent higher than a year before. In the fourth month of the year, the rise in earnings...
Read moreKSH: the growth of retail sales continues
Retail sales, calculated on unchanged price increased by 4.3 percent in April, compared to the data of a year before. Seasonally adjusted retail sales – mainly due to the Easter...
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Slaughter pig’s price started to go down again in April
According to data from the Central Statistical Office (KSH), in April 2018 agricultural production prices were 1.2 percent higher than in the same period of 2017. This rise was the...
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The sales growth continued in April
In April 2018 like-for-like retail volume sales augmented by 4.4 percent; adjusted for calendar effects, the sales growth was 6.1 percent – reported the Central Statistical Office (KSH). Food and...
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Food prices grew above the average in May
In May 2018 consumer prices were 2.8 percent higher on average than a year before. In comparison with May 2017, food prices increased by 3.8 percent. Egg’s price soared by...
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Wine trading surplus
Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) and KSH’s market price information system (PÁIR) revealed that Hungary’s live pig export fell 14 percent in the first quarter of 2018....
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KSH: tourism stagnated due to the high base in April
In April, 0.8 percent more foreign visitors spent 2.2 percent less guest nights in hotels in Hungary, while the number of domestic guests increased by 0.3 percent and the number...
Read moreKSH: consumer prices increased by 2.8 percent in May
In May, consumer prices were on average 2.8 percent higher than in the previous year and 0.6 percent higher than in the previous month, according to the data of the...
Read moreKSH: GDP grew by 4.4 percent in the first quarter
In the first quarter, gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 4.4 percent. Seasonally and calendar effect adjusted, the growth was 4.7 percent, compared to the same period of the previous...
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Imports rose more than exports
In the first quarter, the value of exports in euros was 3.4, the value of imports in euros was 3.9 percent higher than in the same period of last year,...
Read moreServices, consumption and investment have led the economy
The volume of gross domestic product (GDP) was 4.4 percent higher than the one-year-earlier figure in the first quarter. The 4.9 percent growth of services, the 5.0 percent growth of...
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Food imports have grown
The value of exports calculated in euros increased by 3.7 percent, while imports decreased by 1.1 percent, compared to March last year. Foreign trade surplus decreased by 255 million euros...
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The amount of food per capita reached 680 kilograms in 2016 in Hungary
The amount of food per capita reached 680 kilograms in 2016, according to the latest “Food Balances” publication of the Central Statistics Office (KSH) – Világgazdaság Online wrote. In Hungary,...
Read moreThe consumer spending of households grew by 5.1 percent in real terms last year
The average monthly consumption per capita of the Hungarian population was 82,900 HUF in 2017. It is 7.6 higher at an average price and by 5.1 percent higher in real...
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KSH: In March the turnover of hotels increased by 13 percent
In March, the number of guest nights spent by foreign guests was 10.1, while the number of guest nights spent by domestic guests was 16.5 percent higher than in the...
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KSH: double-digit growth continued in earnings
In February, gross average earnings increased by 11.9 percent compared to a year before and reached 306 500 forints. In the first two months of the year, gross and net...
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Magazine: February brought a 4.9-percent production price increase in agriculture
According to data from the Central Statistical Office (KSH), in February 2018 agricultural production prices were 4.9 percent higher than in the same period of 2017. This rise was the...
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The area of orchard plantations can grow
On the basis of the preliminary data on fruit plantation censuses, the area of orchard plantations can grow by around 17,000 hectares from the current 73,000 hectares over the next...
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KSH: employment grew in February and April
During the February-April period, the average number of employees was 4 million 445 thousand, 67 thousand more than a year before. The employment rate of the 15-64 year olds grew...
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Analysts: earnings growth accelerated in January surpassing the expectations
Following the increase in minimum wages and the shortage of skilled workers, the KSH reported on a salary increase exceeding the expectations in January. The pace of growth in earnings...
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The rise in earnings lags behind expectations
The rate of rise in earnings fell somewhat behind analysts’ expectations in March. One of the reasons of this was the base effect, that the rate of increase of the...
Read moreKSH: the retail data has become even better
The raw volume of retail sales grew by 8.7 percent in March. The calendar effect adjusted volume of retail sales increased by 7.3 percent – mainly due to Easter –...
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KSH: earnings grew by 12.4 percent in the first quarter
With the 11.3 percent increase in March, earnings grew by 12.4 percent in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period of last year – the Central...
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A salary difference of nearly 80 thousand forints between discount stores and small shops
Among retail chains discount supermarkets pay their blue-collar workers the best: at Aldi, Lidl and Penny they got a gross HUF 257,000/month on average in February 2018. Auchan, Spar and...
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Easter brought an egg price increase
In April 2018 consumer prices were 2.3 percent higher on average than a year before. In comparison with April 2017, food prices increased by 4.2 percent. Egg’s price soared by...
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