The Estonian Financial Supervision Authority (FSA) has said the most difficult time for banks during the coronavirus crisis has passed and at the end of the second quarter requests for loan holidays ceased. In the second quarter, the loan stock of the banking sector decreased by 0.7% YoY, to EUR 27.5 billion. In the previous…
The volume of railway freights in January-September declined by 45.5% YoY, to 17.241 million tons, according to data compiled by the Transport Ministry. This includes 15.812 million tons of international transports, down by 47.9%. The volume of domestic transports has increased by 12.1%, to 1.429 million tons. According to available information, the volume of transit…
Consumer inflation slowed down to 2.3% in annual terms in September (from 2.5% in August). Prices rose by 0.5% MoM, according to the press service of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). Consumer inflation was below the target range of 5% + 1% and remained lower than the forecast published in the July Inflation Report.…
Ukraine exported 4,060 tons of cheese in January-September, down by 21.1% YoY. According to the State Customs Service, in monetary terms, exports decreased by 16.3%, to $15.61 million. At the same time, import of cheese in the first nine months of 2020 increased 2.3-fold, to 33,740 tons, and in monetary terms 2.2-fold, to $148.86 million.…
In August, the foreign trade turnover of Latvia amounted to EUR 2.31 billion, which at current prices was 4.3% less than a year ago, of which the exports value of goods dropped by 3.7% and imports value of goods – by 4.8%. Latvia exported goods in the amount of EUR 1.07 billion, but imported –…
There were 49,093 registered unemployed in Estonia as of the end of September, making up 7.6% of the entire workforce of people aged 16 and over. Compared to August, the increase in the number of unemployment is 0.5%. The highest rate of unemployment in September was in Ida-Viru County at 12.2% and the lowest was…
This week the dollar exchange rate will continue to decline to UAH 28.10 and if the NBU pursues a policy similar to last week and does not redeem the surplus currency keeping the dollar exchange rate, the hryvnia may gradually strengthen to UAH 28.00, according to Alpari. “The dollar exchange rate began to slow down…