Poland: retail sales down in November 2023

Polish retail sales went down by 0.8% YoY in November 2023 after a 2.1% increase in October 2023, the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat reported on January 8. Month on month, retail sales went down by 0.1%, the agency also said. Eurostat annual growth figures are work-day adjusted, while the monthly growth figures are also seasonally…

Poland: manufacturing index down in December 2023

Poland’s manufacturing sector purchasing managers’ index (PMI) dropped to 47.4 points in December 2023 from 48.6 points in November 2023 owing to a protracted deterioration in manufacturing business conditions, a report by S&P Global showed. “The latest batch of data from S&P Global’s 2023 Poland PMI survey point to a sustained deterioration in manufacturing business…