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Weekly bulletin 10.02 - 17.02.2012
20 february 2012
By express NSI estimates in the fourth quarter of 2011 GDP grew by 1.5 % compared to the same quarter of previous year and 0.4 % versus the third quarter of 2011. For the EU, Eurostat's flash estimates show that in the fourth quarter of 2011 GDP in the EU-27 fell by 0.3 % from the previous quarter. In the fourth quarter of 2011 compared to the previous quarter, the highest growth recorded Slovakia (0.9 %), Latvia (0.8 %), Bulgaria (0.4 %), Hungary (0.3 %) and France (0.2 %), while Portugal, Lithuania and Italy registered a decline by 1.3 %, 0.9 % and 0.7 %. NSI announced also the data of inflation - according to preliminary data the consumer price index (CPI) for January 2012 to December 2011 was 100.2 %, ie monthly inflation was 0.2 %. Annual inflation in January 2012 to January 2011 was 2.3 %. Average annual inflation for the period February 2011 - January 2012 to the period February 2010 - January 2011 is 4.0 %.....more »
