Current Economic Trends
In March, industrial production, facilities investment, and retail sales increased, while constructioninvestment decreased. In April, the increase in the number of employed persons slowed, whileconsumer prices accelerated on a month-on-month basis. In March, total industrial production rose (up 0.3% m-o-m and up 3.5% y-o-y), as gains in the industrialsector (up 0.3% and up 3.6%) and services sector (up 1.4% and up 5.1%) outweighed a decline inconstruction (down 7.3% and down 5.4%). The cyclical indicator of the coincident composite index for March went up by 0.5 points and the cyclical...
