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Inflation hits 1.5% in Finland in February
In January, the year-on-year change in the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) stood at 1.7 per cent. According to the…
Housing loan drawdowns rise in Jan but still below average
Drawdowns of housing loans in January exceeded the level of the same period in the two previous years, while remaining below the…
Volume of exports drops 3.5%, imports 2.8% in 2024
The total value of exports decreased by 5.4 per cent and the value of imports by 3.3 per cent in 2024 compared to the previous year,…
Finland´s GDP drops by 0.2% in 2024
The volume of Finland's gross domestic product decreased in October to December 2024 by 0.2 per cent from the previous quarter,…
Supplementary budget proposal submitted to Parliament
The four-party alliance government on Thursday submitted a supplementary budget proposal for 2025 to Parliament, said the Ministry of…
OL3 nuke power plant goes under service outage on March 1
The Olkiluoto 3 plant unit (OL3) will be disconnected from electricity production on March 1 for a service outage, said the owner of…
OP forecasts 2.5% home price increase in 2025
OP Financial Group’s economists predict that home prices to increase by 2.5% this year, said OP in a press release on Tuesday.…
Norwegian Schibsted Media acquires MTV
Norwegian Schibsted Media on Tuesday has bought the Finnish television channel MTV, said an official press release. Schibsted Media…
Number of unemployed jobseekers rises in Jan
The number of unemployed jobseekers was 325,800 in Finland at the end of January and the number is 34,600 more than a year earlier and…
Job vacancies reduce by 10,800 in Finland in 2024
The number of job vacancies in 2024 was 43,700, whereas in 2023 the number was 54,500, according to Statistics Finland. In 2024, the…