Belgian Prime News N° 84PDF

The Belgian labour market has continued to perform very well throughout the first nine months of 2018, with a harmonised unemployment rate of 5.8 % in the third quarter according

In the decade that followed the failure of Lehman Brothers, the Belgian insurance sector had to deal with periods of major stress in global financial markets but also with an

and Wauters (2018), “Are inflation and economic activity out of sync in the euro area ?”, National Bank of Belgium, Economic review, June.. (2) See also Belgian Prime News

However, long-term sovereign bond yields in the euro area and the US increased over the first quarter of 2018, reflecting improving market expectations of economic growth

Asian investors showed great interest in the deal, taking up 71.98 % of the issue, as well as non-euro investors taking 16.82 %. Taking into account the € 2.7 million worth of

In particular, the analysis conducted by the FPS Economy (Price Observatory and Directorate General Statistics – Statistics Belgium), the National Bank of Belgium and the

As in neighbouring countries, exports of Belgium were hit by the weakness of foreign demand and by the appreciation of the euro until mid 2003.. In particular, it suffered from

HICP inflation in Belgium decreased from 1.8% in November 2003 to 1.2% in February 2004, mainly because of movements in energy prices reflecting the euro appreciation and