According to information released by Statistics Estonia on October 30, the turnover of retail trade enterprises in September increased by 3% YoY at constant prices, with growth accelerating slightly compared to the previous month, when turnover increased by 2%. In September the turnover of retail trade enterprises was EUR 588.6 million. The turnover growth in…
Growth in the economy slowed in the first half of 2018, signs of which were evident on the labor market, with employment growing more slowly than in 2017, the Bank of Estonia said. There are still many vacant positions in the economy, but they are fewer in number than a year ago, Bank of Estonia…
In 8 months of 2018 trade turnover with the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union decreased by 3.4% YoY and amounted to $1,481 billion, the Deputy Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Zhenish Razakov declared at a meeting of Respublika-Ata Jurt parliamentary faction. According to him, export to the EEU countries increased by 5.4% and amounted to…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has decided to leave unchanged the refinancing rate at 18% per annum, the central bank has reported on its website. Decision No. 714-rsh about the size of the refinancing rate was approved by the NBU Board on October 25. “Current and projected monetary conditions are rather tough to provide…
Ukraine saw a 5.5% rise in retail trade in January-September compared to the same period of 2017. However, the Ukrainian State Statistics Service has not provided statistics in monetary terms yet. Retail turnover increased the most in Ukraine-controlled districts in Luhansk and Donetsk regions, as well as in Poltava, Zakarpattia, and Kyiv regions, namely by…
The US intends to raise the level of trade and investment cooperation with Uzbekistan, Chairman of the American-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce Carolyn Lamm said during an Uzbek-American business forum. “We learned a very important fact that the Russians signed more agreements than the US. We decided that we could make more agreements to increase the…
A draft state budget for 2019 is currently being prepared in Turkmenistan. This was discussed at a government meeting on October 19, as a result of which main directions of the socio-economic development of Turkmenistan and the Investment Program for 2019 were identified. A significant part of monetary volumes is planned to be directed to…