October 2024

September 2024. Provisional data The General Retail Trade Index at constant prices adjusted for seasonal and calendar effects presented a variation of 4.1% in September with respect to the same month of the previous year. This rate was 1.7 points higher than that recorded in August. The original series of the MCI at constant prices […]

Fourth quarter 2024 Business confidence falls by 1.2% in the fourth quarter compared with the third quarter.All five sectors analysed decrease in confidence with respect to the previous quarter. Industry (-3.0%) presented the greatest decrease. Trade (-0.4%) recorded the smallest decline. By employee bracket, the five ranges analysed decreased in confidence as compared with the

Eurostat reports a reduction in Eurozone inflation, marking the lowest rate of the year, driven by a decline in energy prices. Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, estimates that the annual inflation rate in the Eurozone reached 1.8% in September 2024, reflecting a decrease from the 2.2% recorded in August. This drop highlights

Despite declines in key countries, overall housing prices in the EU rise in the first quarter of 2024, led by significant growth in Poland, Bulgaria, and Lithuania. In the first quarter of 2024, housing prices in the eurozone saw a slight decrease of 0.4%, while the European Union as a whole experienced a 1.3% increase

In 2023, EU exports of recyclable materials grew by 34%, while imports fell by 19%, with India, Turkey, and the UK as key trade partners. In 2023, the European Union saw a remarkable growth in its exports of recyclable products, reaching 8.5 million tonnes. This represented a 34% increase compared to the 6.4 million tonnes

Annual CPI falls to 1.5% in September, while core inflation falls to 2.4%. In September, the annual rate of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell to 1.5%, the lowest since March 2021 and eight tenths of a percentage point lower than in August. The groups that contributed most to this decline were: Transport: with a

The number of mercantile companies created increased by 3.9% in August with respect to the same month in 2023.The number of dissolved companies increased by 0.9% compared to the same month in 2023. In August, 6,874 mercantile companies were created, 3.9% more than in the same month of 2023. The capital subscribed for their incorporation

In the second quarter of 2024, the euro area ended a year of falling house prices, with increases in twenty countries and decreases in six. House prices in Spain rose by 3.6% in the second quarter of 2024, the highest increase since 2015. This increase was higher than the Eurozone (1.8%) and EU (1.9%) average,

In the second quarter of 2024, the seasonally adjusted current account of the EU balance of payments recorded a surplus of 130.4 billion euro. Overview In the second quarter of 2024, the seasonally adjusted current account of the EU balance of payments recorded a surplus of EUR 130.4 billion (+2.9% of GDP), compared with a

Relevant data Since 2020, fuel and lubricant prices for personal transport in the EU have shown significant volatility. Annual inflation rates were negative in May 2020 (-19.5%), but started to rise sharply in 2021, reaching +33.4% in November of that year. The peak came in June 2022 (+39.2%) and then started to decelerate, turning negative