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 […]

The Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) share index, the BUX, rose this week amid growing turnover, with the BUX closing at 110,405.74 points on Friday, 0.73% higher than a week earlier. Weekly turnover was HUF 185.23 billion, following HUF 83.09 billion the previous week, with leading shares strengthening during the week, except for Mol, and OTP […]

Hungary’s central bank is preparing the public for an inflation path far gentler than it had forecast just a few months ago. In its newly released quarterly Inflation Report, the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) says it now expects significantly slower price growth in 2026, helped by falling global food prices, easing energy costs, and a […]

The Monetary Council of the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) decided to leave the central bank base rate unchanged at 6.50% at a monthly policy meeting on Tuesday. The Council also left the O/N deposit rate at 5.50% and the O/N collateralised loan rate at 7.50%. The rates mark the ends of the central bank's […]

The world economy is on the downturn phase right now. Almost all the developed countries, including EU members, will see their economy, say, stagnated for at least this year, mainly because of the various tariffs imposed on different countries and sectors by the Trump administration. That is how Senior Economist at the Center for Macroeconomics […]

The Budapest Stock Exchange (BÉT) share index, BUX, closed at 109,607.58 points on Friday, 0.63% higher than a week earlier. Weekly turnover was HUF 83.09 billion, following HUF 75.93 billion the previous week, with leading shares strengthening, except for Mol. Equilor Investment Ltd. highlighted in its weekly summary that, according to its analysts, OTP's 12-month […]

Construction output volume, based on both raw and calendar-adjusted data surpassed in October 2025 the one year earlier level by 9.7%. Among the main construction groups the construction of buildings expanded by 14.7%, that of civil engineering increased by 3.7%, the Central Statisical Office (KSH) reports. Based on seasonally and working day adjusted indices construction […]

The volume of industrial production in Hungary lagged behind the one year earlier level by 2.7% in October 2025. The working day adjusted index is equal to the non-adjusted one, the Central Statistical Office reports. A setback in production occurred in the great majority of the manufacturing subsections. According to seasonally and working-day adjusted data, […]

Fewer than 60,000 people — the richest 0.001% of the global population — now hold three times more wealth than the poorest half of humanity, according to the World Inequality Report 2026. It’s a comparison so extreme it barely seems real: a group small enough to fit inside a single football stadium commands more wealth […]