The Green Book: Current Economic Trends
Overview Production indicators, as well as expenditure indicators, improved in September. Unemployment remained weak. Industrial production rose 2.3 percent from the previous month in September. Mining and manufacturing increased (up 5.4%, m-o-m and up 8.0%, y-o-y), as well as services output (up 0.3%, m-o-m and up 0.0%, y-o-y). Industrial production improved 3.4 percent year on year. Retail sales (up 1.7%, m-o-m and up 4.4%, y-o-y) rose. Facilities investment (up 7.4%, m-o-m and up 16.8%, y-o-y) and completed construction works (up 6.4%, m-o-m and up 6.3%, y-o-y) went up. Exports decl...