The volume of industrial production in Hungary lagged behind the one year earlier level by 5.4% in November 2025. The working day adjusted index is equal to the non-adjusted one, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reports. According to seasonally and working-day adjusted data, industrial output was 2.0% lower than in October 2025. Production volume decreased […]

The Budapest Stock Exchange's share index, the BUX, closed this week's trading at 116,510.12 points on Friday, up 600.54 points or 0.52%. The stock market turnover was HUF 10.8 billion, with leading shares performing mixed compared to the previous day's close. András Takács, equity analyst at Equilor Investment Ltd., told MTI that trading on the […]

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is looking across the Atlantic for a financial lifeline as Hungary heads toward a pivotal 2026 election. After a first bid for U.S. assistance fizzled, Orban revealed that his government has yet to secure the kind of American financial backstop it initially sought, though talks remain underway. Orbán’s overtures to the […]

Industrial producer prices were 2.7% lower on average in November 2025 than one year earlier. Domestic output prices fell by 1.8% and non-domestic ones by 3.1% compared to November in the previous year, the country's Central Statistical Office (KSH) reports. Compared to the previous month, domestic output prices rose by 0.3% and non-domestic output prices […]

In November 2025, the average number of employed persons aged 15–74 was 4,637,000. The number of unemployed persons was 213,000 and the unemployment rate was 4.4%, according to the country's Central Statistical Office (KSH). In the period September–November 2025, the average number of employed persons aged 15–74 was 4,656,000, 36,000 fewer than a year earlier. […]

Hungary's government sector had a HUF 909 billion deficit in the third quarter of 2025, equivalent to 4.2% of GDP, MTI quotes data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) on Tuesday. Government sector revenue rose 6.3% to HUF 8,875 billion, while expenditures climbed 6.8% to HUF 9,783 billion. For the period Q1-Q3, the government […]

The deficit of Hungary's external trade in goods was EUR 121 million last November compared to the same period of the previous year. The volume of exports lessened by 8.6%, that of imports grew by 3.8% over that period, the country's Central Statistical Office (KSH) reports. The EUR 121 million deficit means that the balance […]

Share turnover on the Budapest Stock Exchange came to HUF 387 billion in December, MTI quoted a statement issued by the bourse on Monday. Daily turnover averaged HUF 20.4 billion. Wood and Company was the most active broker during the month, with double-counted turnover of HUF 201 billion. Concorde was runner-up with turnover of HUF […]

Hungary's seasonally-adjusted Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) stood at 53.7 points in December, inching up from 53.6 in the previous month, the Hungarian Association of Logistics, Purchasing and Inventory Management (Halpim) said on Monday. The PMI was over the 50-point threshold, signalling an expansion in the manufacturing sector. Among the PMI sub-indices, the new orders index […]

Hungary’s benchmark BUX stock index surged in 2025, posting one of its strongest annual performances on record. By late December, the BUX had climbed nearly 40% for the year, far outpacing many Western markets and repeatedly breaking all-time highs. The index – which tracks Hungary’s blue-chip companies – even sailed past the symbolic 100,000-point milestone […]

The Hungarian government has earmarked HUF 800 billion for the regulated utilities price scheme for households in 2025 and will continue the program in 2026, Energy Ministry state secretary Gábor Czepek said in a post on social media on Monday. The state secretary was of the opinion that Hungarian households paid the lowest gas and […]

Hungary’s government has announced a bundle of economic and social measures aimed at bolstering household incomes and small businesses just in time for the holidays. The package – unveiled days before Christmas – ranges from extra pension payments and tax breaks to public sector wage boosts. Observers note the timing is no coincidence: with a […]

The Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) share index, BUX, closed two-day trading week Tuesday (due to the Christmas holidays) at 111,046.97 points, up 155.98 points or 0.14%. Péter Aradványi, an analyst at Equilor Investment Ltd., explained the low turnover and moderate price movements with the typically subdued interest at the end of the year, adding that […]

The Budapest Stock Exchange's share index, the BUX, closed at a historic high of 110,890.99 points on Monday, up 485.25 points or 0.44%. The stock market turnover was HUF 10.7 billion, with leading stocks performing mixed compared to the previous day's close. Ákos Czibere, an analyst at Equilor Investment Ltd., told MTI that on Monday, […]

Hungary's general government deficit reached HUF 4,070.4 billion at the end of November, 80.5% of the full-year target, the country's National Economy Ministry confirmed in a detailed reading of data on Monday, MTI says. The report noted the deficit target of the general government, corresponding to a 3.7% ESA deficit target in the adopted budget […]