The Budapest Stock Exchange's (BSE) share index, the BUX, closed at 62,804.52 points on Wednesday, up 882.9 points or 1.43%, the second all-time high this week, MTI reported Wednesday afternoon. Turnover on the stock market was HUF 20.5 billion, with the leading shares performing mixed compared to the previous day's close. According to Zoltán Árokszállási, […]
After the outstanding close of the previous month, the BUX index held its form in September: the BSE's primary share index ended the month at 55,838.5 points, just over 55,000 points above the 55,000 mark, which represents an increase of just 0.1% compared to August, the financial portal portfolio.hu reports. The turnover of the spot […]
Although stock markets tend to be subdued in the summer months, the Budapest Stock Exchange had an outstanding month. The BSE's primary stock index, the BUX index, ended the month at 55,775 points, a historical record for the month, following a 4.5% increase, the financial portal portfolio.hu writes. The strong form was also reflected in […]
The 20-year record for the lowest maximum temperature in Kékestető, the country’s highest point, was broken on Thursday, the National Meteorological Service said on its website this Friday. April's winter weather set a new record, with temperatures in Kékestető (in the Mátra mountains, NE Hungary) on April 6 not rising above minus two degrees Celsius, […]
The December 24 heat record of the Hungarian capital was broken this Saturday: 13.1 degrees Celsius were recorded at the Lágymányos station in southern Budapest, the National Meteorological Service notified the public on one of its social media pages on Sunday. The statement said this was several tenths of a degree Celsius higher than the […]
In July, 114,448 Hungarian citizens were working in Austria, 980 more than a month earlier, the financial news site privatbankar.hu reported. This is a new historical record and a record in the sense that it was the second highest increase among the countries. Unsurprisingly, Ukraine leads the way with 1,147 new jobs, but that is […]
The National Meteorological Service (OMSZ) has confirmed that the average temperature in June and July this year was 22.9 grade Celsius in Hungary, the hottest since 1901, the state news agency MTI reports. According to OMSZ, 2021 saw the hottest July since the beginning of the 20th century, and the third-hottest June. Hungary has seen […]
18.1 degrees Celcius was measured this Thursday in Letenye, a town on the Croatian border in southwestern Hungary - a new Hungarian record measured on February 4. The National Meteorological Service said that this Thursday looked like a typical day in early February , but the temperatures were much more similar to the values recorded […]
Another twenty patients died of the pandemic in the past 24 hours, which is a negative record, with the highest number of deaths in a single day so far being 17 (on April 18 and October 2). According to figures disclosed by the government, these fatalities bring the total number of COVID-19 related deaths to […]
