Source link The EU has significantly increased imports of Russian grain despite the bloc’s sanctions against the country, news outlet RIA Novosti reported on Saturday, citing European statistics agency Eurostat. According to the report, in September the EU increased imports of Russian grain by 22% month-on-month to 180,000 tons, roughly ten times what had been […]
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Russian unemployment hits historical low – data — RT Business News
Source link The number of jobless people has dropped below 3% for the first time since the 1990s Unemployment levels in Russia plunged to 2.9% in October, according to data from the country’s statistics service, Rosstat, released on Wednesday. The figure is the lowest since the early 1990s. Last month, around 2.2 million people aged […]
UK retail sales nosedive – data — RT Business News
Source link UK retail sales fell unexpectedly in October, with the volume of goods sold in stores and online slumping 0.3% month-on-month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported on Friday. Economists were expecting an increase of 0.4% for the month of October. Instead, sales plummeted to their lowest level since early 2021, when Covid […]
Russia ramps up trade with Africa and Asia – customs data — RT Business News
Source link Russia’s economic cooperation with Asian and African countries has continued to grow while trade with the European Union has declined, according to the latest report by the Federal Customs Service (FCS). Data released this week showed exports to Asia jumped to $226.6 billion in the first nine months of the year, up by […]
Japan faces recession – official data — RT Business News
Source link The Japanese economy slipped into a contraction in the period from July to September, ending two straight quarters of growth, according to government data released on Wednesday. Gross domestic product (GDP) in the world’s third-largest economy contracted 2.1% in the third quarter in a much sharper decline than a median market projection for […]
Israel-Hamas conflict dents demand for global air travel – data — RT Business News
Source link The number of international flight bookings has been declining since the October 7 attack, according to a report The escalating Israel-Hamas conflict has negatively impacted not only flights to and from the Middle East but also caused a global slowdown in the aviation industry, travel analysis firm ForwardKeys reported on Friday. According to […]