Russian economy declines 4% y/y in Q2 after 3.5% y/y increase in Q1 -econ ministry
MOSCOW – The Russian economy declined by 4.0% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2022 after a 3.5% rise in the previous three months, the economy ministry said on Wednesday. The first…
Malaysia’s June CPI up 3.4% y/y, higher than forecast
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s consumer price index (CPI) rose 3.4% from a year earlier in June, government data showed on Friday. The rise was more than the 3.1% growth forecast by economists…
Indonesia’s Q2 FDI jumps nearly 40% y/y, biggest rise in a decade
JAKARTA – Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Indonesia rose 39.7% annually in the April-June period in rupiah terms to 163.2 trillion rupiah ($10.89 billion), the investment minister said on Wednesday, the biggest…
China’s June exports rise 17.9% y/y, imports grow 1.0%
BEIJING – China’s exports rose 17.9% in June from a year ago, beating analysts’ expectations as the economy tries to wrestle back lost momentum from extensive COVID lockdowns and supply chain snags,…
Greek producer price inflation slows down to 43% y/y in May
ATHENS – Data on Greek producer price inflation in May, released by the country’s statistics service (ELSTAT) on Thursday: *************************************************************** KEY FIGURES May April March February January PPI y/y 43.0 48.8 46.2…
Singapore May manufacturing output up 13.8% y/y amid chip shortage
SINGAPORE – Singapore’s industrial output in May beat forecasts and grew 13.8% year-on-year, due to strong demand from 5G markets and data centres amid a global semiconductor chip shortage, official data showed…
Malaysia’s May CPI up 2.8% y/y, higher than forecast
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s consumer price index (CPI) rose 2.8% from a year earlier in May, government data showed on Friday. The rise was more than the 2.6% expansion forecast by 17…
Sri Lanka May consumer prices soar 45.3% y/y, highest since 2015
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO -Sri Lanka’s headline inflation accelerated in May to the highest since 2015 due to rising food and transport costs, as the island nation grappled with its worst economic…
China May industrial output up 0.7% y/y, retail sales fall 6.7%; better than f’casts
BEIJING – China’s industrial output rose 0.7% in May from a year earlier, picking up from a 2.9% decline in April, official data showed on Wednesday. The figure beat expectations of a…
China says its Jan-April non-financial outbound direct investment rises 4.5% y/y
BEIJING – China’s non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) in the first four months of the year rose 4.5% from a year earlier to $35.88 billion, the commerce ministry said on Monday. In…
Spain retail sales rise 1.5% y/y in April
(Reuters) – Spanish retail sales rose 1.5% in April from a year earlier on a seasonally and calendar-adjusted basis, after falling 4.1% in March, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said on Friday.…
Russian economic growth slows to 3.5% y/y in Q1 – Rosstat
(Reuters) – The Russian economy expanded by 3.5% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2022 after growing 5% in the previous quarter, data from federal statistics service Rosstat showed on Wednesday. The…
Russian mobile operator MTS reports 76.2% y/y slump in Q1 net profit
(Reuters) – Russia’s biggest mobile operator MTS on Wednesday reported a 76.2% year-on-year drop in first-quarter net profit to 3.9 billion roubles ($62.9 million), which it blamed in part on higher interest…
Inflation in Ukraine rises to 16.4% y/y in April – statistics service
KYIV – Ukraine’s inflation increased to 16.4% in April year-on-year from 13.7% in March, the state statistics service said on Tuesday, citing a sharp rise in food and energy prices following Russia’s…
Indonesia’s foreign direct investment surges 32% y/y in Q1
By Gayatri Suroyo and Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA – Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indonesia soared 31.8% on a yearly basis in the first quarter in rupiah terms, the country’s investment minister said…
Gazprom says gas exports outside ex-Soviet Union down 28.5% y/y so far in 2022
– Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday that natural gas exports outside former Soviet Union countries fell by 28.5% year on year to 30.7 billion cubic metres (bcm) in the period…
India’s February WPI inflation accelerates to 13.11% y/y
NEW DELHI – India’s annual wholesale price-based inflation accelerated to 13.11% in February from the previous month’s 12.96%, government data showed on Monday. February’s figure was higher than 12.10% forecast in a…
Euro zone unemployment at record lows, producer prices show record jump y/y
BRUSSELS – Euro zone unemployment fell to record lows in January as the economy continued to rebound from the pandemic slump, but industrial producer prices showed a record surge year-on-year because energy…
Russia’s Gazprom Jan-Feb gas exports down by third y/y
MOSCOW – Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday that natural gas exports outside ex-Soviet Union countries fell by 32.6% year-on-year in January – February to 23.2 billion cubic metres (bcm). It…
Hong Kong January exports rises 18.4 pct y/y
HONG KONG, Feb 24 – Hong Kong released January export data on Thursday: * January exports rises 18.4 pct y/y Hong Kong trade: Percent change on a year earlier: All exports Imports…
Thai domestic car sales jump 25.81% y/y in January
BANGKOK – Domestic car sales in Thailand rose 25.81% in January from a year earlier to 69,455 units, helped by an easing of coronavirus curbs and government support, the Federation of Thai…
Italy January EU-harmonised CPI revised to +5.1% y/y
– Italian EU-harmonised consumer prices (HICP) remained flat month-on-month in January and were up 5.1% from the year earlier, official statistics agency ISTAT said on Tuesday, revising down preliminary data. The preliminary…
Spanish inflation slows to 6% y/y in Jan on lower power costs
-Spanish inflation slowed to 6% year-on-year in January from 6.5% in December, mainly thanks to lower electricity costs, flash data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Monday. The 12-month inflation…
Hong Kong Exchange Fund’s 2021 investment income falls 27.7% y/y – HKMA
HONG KONG -Hong Kong’s Exchange Fund, which is used to back the Hong Kong dollar, posted investment income of HK$170.5 billion ($21.9 billion) in 2021, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said on…
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