The Green Book: Current Economic Trends
Overview Production and exports continued to struggle due to weak global recovery while domestic demand stayed positive backed by the strong service sector. The economy added fewer jobs in April than the previous month (300,000 252,000, y-o-y) as the number of daily jobs decreased due to the election day, a national holiday. Consumer price inflation slowed in May to 0.8 percent compared with 1.0 percent in the previous month, due to stable agricultural product prices and a cut in natural gas rates. Mining and manufacturing production fell 1.3 percent month-on-month in April as automobi...