SLOVENIA
SBITOP flat, PETROL gains the most
The SBI TOP index of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange closed 0.07% higher at 844.82 points in a day of mixed trading on Monday. The most active issue, the share of energy company Petrol, also topped the winners' column (+0.57% to EUR 353). Overall trading volume was EUR 627,000.
Source: STA
Jobless total falls to nine-year low
The number of unemployed registered with Slovenia's Employment Service dropped below the 80,000 mark in April, the lowest seen for the past nine years.
Source: STA
INTERNATIONAL MARKETS
Industrial producer prices up by 0.1% in euro area
In March 2018, compared with February 2018, industrial producer prices rose by 0.1% in the euro area (EA19) and by 0.2% in the EU28, according to estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In February 2018, prices remained unchanged in both zones.
Source: Eurostat
Euro area annual inflation down to 1.2%
Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 1.2% in April 2018, down from 1.3% in March 2018, according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
Source: Eurostat
German industrial production rose by 1 percent
German industrial production rose by 1 percent month-on-month in March of 2018, recovering from an upwardly revised 1.7 percent drop in a month earlier but slightly below market consensus of a 1.75 percent gain. It was the biggest gain in industrial output since November 2017, as production increased for: capital (2.6 percent) and consumer goods (1.1 percent). Also, energy output rose by 1.4 percent and construction activity went up by 0.6 percent.
Source: TA
SERBIA
Construction of the Belgrade-Sarajevo highway Memorandum signed - Turkish company Taşyapi to work on several infrastructure projects in Serbia
During the Turkish-Serbian business forum in Istanbul a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Turkish construction company Taşyapi, which also includes the construction of Belgrade-Sarajevo highway, was signed by the Minister of Construction, Traffic and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic. According to the memorandum, the Turkish company is set to present technical and financial propositions of several infrastructure projects in Serbia. These projects include the Novi Pazar–Tutin and Aljinovići–Sjenica–Novi Pazar state road reconstruction and the construction of both strips of Belgrade-Sarajevo highway located in Serbia, namely Kuzmin-Sremska Raca and Pozega - Kotroman up to the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Ministry of Construction announced.
Source: Ekapija
Next EU budget good for Serbia and Western Balkans
The head of the EU delegation to Serbia, Sem Fabrizi, said on Friday, May 4, 2018, that the next long-term budget proposed by the European Commission would be good for Serbia and the Western Balkans, as more money for help is planned. The next long-term budget proposed by the European Commission is good news for Serbia and the Western Balkans for two reasons – Fabrizi said and added that the first reason was the “proposition for pre-access help to increase to EUR 14.5 billion, which is an increase by 20%, and that means a great help for Serbia and the Western Balkans”.
Source: Ekapija
