At its meeting on this Tuesday, the Monetary Council of the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) reviewed the latest economic and financial developments and decided not to change the central bank interest rates, leaving its base rate at 6.5%. According to the press release after the meeting, the primary objective of the National Bank of […]
The Budapest Stock Exchange (BÉT) share index declined amid rising turnover this week, with the BUX closing at 100,198.56 points on Friday, down 1,001.28 points, or 0.99%, from a week earlier. Weekly turnover was HUF 101.33 billion, following HUF 81.41 billion the previous week, with leading shares weakening, except for OTP. On Monday, investors began […]
The Hungarian economy may accelerate next year, with GDP growing by 2.8% according to the latest analysis presented by Equilor Investment Ltd. at a press conference on Thursday. Senior analyst Zoltán Varga said that the Hungarian outlook is most affected by the weakness of the German economy and the global uncertainty caused by the trade […]
Turnover on the stock market was HUF 81.41 billion this week, following HUF 52.76 billion last week, with leading shares weakening. The BUX moved mixed during the week: it fell on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, rose on Thursday in line with European stock markets amid positive investor sentiment, but ultimately fell again on Friday due […]
Consumer prices were 4.3% higher on average in August 2025 than a year earlier, the Central Statistical Office reports. Compared to July, prices were unchanged on average. In 12 months, compared to August 2024:A price increase of 5.9% (4.7% excluding food and beverage serving services) was recorded for food, within which 19.9% for eggs, 18.5% […]
The Budapest Stock Exchange's share index, the BUX, closed at 103,178.71 points on Friday, down 1,284.16 points or 1.23% from the previous day. The stock market turnover was HUF 14.1 billion, with leading shares falling compared to the previous day's close, the financial website penzcentrum.hu reports. However, compared to the previous week, the Bux is […]
The volume of industrial production in Hungary lagged behind the level of one year earlier 1.0% in July 2025. The working day adjusted index is equal to the non-adjusted one. According to seasonally and working-day adjusted data, industrial output was 2.0% higher than in June 2025, the country's Central Statistical Office (KSH) reports. Production volume […]
In July 2025, the volume of retail trade in Hungary in both raw and calendar-adjusted data was 1.7% higher than in the same month of the previous year, the country's Central Statistical Office (KSH) reports. Compared to the same period of the previous year, calendar-adjusted sale volumes expanded by 2.3% in specialized and non-specialized food […]
The volume of Hungary’s gross domestic product was 0.1% higher according to raw data and 0.2% higher according to seasonally and calendar adjusted and reconciled data in the 2nd quarter of 2025 than in the corresponding period of the previous year, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reports. Compared to the previous quarter, the economic performance […]
The seasonally adjusted Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for August was 48.9. Compared to previous August values, this year's value is lower than the long-term monthly average (52.5), but exceeds the average of the previous three years' monthly values (48.8), according to a statement sent to MTI on Monday by the Hungarian Logistics, Purchasing and Inventory […]
Industrial producer prices were unchanged in July 2025 compared to previous month and 4.5% higher on average than a year earlier, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reports. Industrial producer prices were 4.5% higher on average in July 2025 than one year earlier. Domestic output prices were 1.6% and non-domestic ones 5.9% higher than in July […]
The Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) share index, the BUX, ended the week at 102,554.62 points, down 2.80% from last Friday's close. Total turnover increased from HUF 48.21 billion to HUF 91.15 billion on a weekly basis, with leading stocks weakening, the financial website penzcentrum.hu reports. The BUX started the week with a decline due to […]
Service exports calculated in EUR increased by 2.4%, imports lessened by 3.4% in the 2nd quarter of 2025, compared to the same period of the previous year. The surplus reached EUR 3.1 billion, EUR 423 million higher than in the 2nd quarter of 2024, according to the Central Statistical Office (KSH). The export value improved […]
The surplus of the external trade in goods was EUR 578 million in Hungary in July; compared to the same period of the previous year, the volume of export surpassed by 3.5%, that of import by 1.0% the one year earlier level, the Central Statistical Office reports. The surplus was EUR 578 million, the balance […]
In July 2025, the average number of employed persons aged 15–74 was 4,712,000. The number of unemployed persons was 211,000 and the unemployment rate was 4.3%, according to the country's Central Statistical Office (KSH). In the period May–July 2025, the average number of employed persons aged 15–74 was 4,681,000, 30,000 fewer than a year earlier. […]
