Consumer price index increased by 0.1% in 2016. Higher excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco, and motor fuels contributed positively, while cheaper energy had the biggest negative impact on prices. The prices of alcoholic beverages and tobacco were around 6% higher…
Wage growth remained rapid in the second quarter at around 8%, over the year. We expect average gross wage to rise by around 5% in 2017. In the 2nd quarter of 2016, the average monthly gross wage was 1,163 euros…
Cheaper energy and food behind the decline in prices Price growth is expected to be flat in 2016 In June 2016, consumer prices decreased by 0.4%, year on year, in Estonia. Goods were 0.6% and services 0.1% cheaper compared to…
Statistics Estonia did not revise the GDP growth of 1Q2016 with its second estimate: it remained 1.7% yoy and flat qoq (swda) in real terms. Despite the fall in prices, GDP growth reached to 3% in nominal terms (2.5% in…
Wage growth accelerated further in the first quarter. A surge in purchasing power supports consumption but hurts enterprises’ profitability. In the 1st quarter of 2016, the average monthly gross wage was 1,091 euros in Estonia, up by 8.1% over the…
Cheaper energy behind the decline in prices Inflation expected at around 1% in 2016 Consumer prices decreased by 0.5% in Estonia in 2015. Consumer prices declined due to lower energy prices. Motor fuels were 14%, heat energy 4%, and electricity…
Economic statistics for the past week revealed that the Estonian economy grew a lot more last year than was previously thought. The growth of GDP in the second quarter can also be regarded as being good. At the same time,…
Cheaper energy behind deflation • Consumer prices dropped further in August • Cheaper energy behind the decline in prices • Inflation expected at -0.2% in 2015 and +1.9% in 2016 August deflation numbers were in line with our expectations. In…
The ending week will be remembered by many for the nervous decline of the stock markets. Despite these uncertain times, the global economy is on track for growth. In Estonia, initial data published for the economic performance of businesses in…
Data from Statistics Estonia show that the growth in average gross wages accelerated to 5.8% in the second quarter of 2015, from 4.5% in the first quarter. Tax changes that took effect this year supported the 7.3% rise in the…
Data from Statistics Estonia show that the consumer price index was 0.1% lower in June than a year earlier and 0.2% lower than a month earlier. Preliminary estimates show that harmonised consumer price index inflation in the euro area slowed…
Rapid inflation, both before and after the economic crisis, made borrowing favourable in each of the Baltic States and reduced the point of depositing money – due to the rapid decrease in the purchasing power of money, real interest rates…
According to the SEB housing purchasing power index, in the last quarter of 2013 the accessibility of housing improved in both Vilnius and Riga but declined in Tallinn. In the last quarter of 2013, a resident of Riga on an…
According to Statistics Estonia the consumer price index of October is 1,5% higher than that one year ago. At the same time housing expenses have increased as much as 8% in one year. By today, in comparison with the year…
According to a report in the Estonian Press Digest from News2Biz, CPI (consumer price index) in other words inflation, in Estonia in June 2012 has seen a 3.9 per cent y-o-y increase, a small rise on the previous month’s y-o-y figure of…
