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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

House prices more than doubled in nine EU countries since 2010 In the second quarter of 2024, house prices in the EU increased by 1.9% and rents by 0.7% compared with the first quarter of 2024. Compared with the second quarter of 2023, house prices rose by 2.9 per cent, while rents increased by 3.0

Provisional data The annual rate of the general Industrial Price Index (IPRI) was -1.3% in the month of August, three tenths above that registered in July. By economic destination of the goods, among the industrial sectors that had a positive influence on the evolution of the annual rate of the general IPRI, the following stood

Provisional data Annual change in export prices The annual rate of the Export Price Index (IPRIX) in the month of August was 0.9%, one tenth below that registered in July. By economic destination of the goods, among the industrial sectors that had a negative influence on the evolution of the annual rate of the IPRIX,

September 2024 The annual change in the leading CPI indicator stood at 1.5% in September, eight tenths of a percentage point lower than that recorded in August.The annual rate of the leading indicator of core inflation fell by 0.3 percentage points to 2.4%.The annual change in the HICP flash estimate is 1.7%. Estimated annual CPI

Data July 2024 In July 2024 the euro area’s current account balance recorded a surplus of €40 billion, down from €51 billion in the previous month. Over the past 12 months, the cumulative surplus amounted to €388 billion (2.6 % of GDP), compared with €71 billion (0.5 %) a year earlier. On the financial account,

Euro area annual inflation rate and its main components Annual inflation in the euro area was 2.2% in August 2024, compared with 2.6% in July 2024. Looking at the main components of euro area inflation, services had the highest annual rate in August (4.1%, up from 4.0% in July), followed by food, alcohol and tobacco

Second quarter 2024 The labor cost of companies increased by 4.1% with respect to the same period of the previous year and reached 3,161.60 euros per worker per month. Wage costs grew by 4.0%. With seasonally adjusted and calendar-adjusted results, the labor cost per worker increased by 3.9% in annual rate and by 1.0% in