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Adjusted for seasonal variation, 115 thousand vacancies were unfilled at the end of June 2010.

Retail turnover was around the same level in the second quarter of 2010 as in the same period last year. This brings the period of decreasing retail turnover to an end. In the five preceding quarters...

Dutch retailers generated over 2 percent more turnover in June than one year previously. The shopping-day and holiday pattern was slightly more favourable than in June 2009, though.

There were 82 thousand fewer jobs of employees in the second quarter of 2010 than in the second quarter of 2009; a decline of 1.0 percent.

Dutch terms of trade of imported and exported goods marginally improved in June 2010 relative to June 2009. Prices of imported goods were 7.6 percent higher, prices of exported goods rose by 8.1...

In June, the volume of goods exports was up by 14 percent on twelve months previously. This compares with the rise of more than 16 percent in May. However, in the first six months of 2009 the volume...

In July this year, 500 businesses and institutions (excluding one-man businesses) in the Netherlands were declared bankrupt, a decrease by nearly 170 relative to June.

In July, Dutch inflation was 1.6 percent, i.e. 0.8 percentage points up on June.

The inflation rate in July rose to 1.6 percent. The rate has not been this high since May 2009. The most recent figures show that natural gas prices had a considerable upward effect on inflation.

Dutch retail turnover in May was nearly 2 percent down on May 2009.

The Dutch long-term interest rate, based on the return of the most recent ten-year government loan, averaged 2.9 percent in July 2010. The rate remained unchanged relative to the preceding month.

In 2009, the value of fixed capital formation in the Netherlands was 19 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). The investment ratio was exceptionally low.

In June, factory gate prices in Dutch manufacturing were more than 9 percent up on June 2009. The increase was less substantial than in the two preceding months, when prices rose by nearly 11 percent...

Dutch manufacturers had reduced their stocks of finished products by almost 13 percent in May 2010 compared with May 2009.

In July 2010, the number of Dutch business services providers expecting turnover to decrease in the next three months outnumbered those expecting an increase. With -4 in July versus -7 in June, the...

In June this year, 441 thousand persons in the Netherlands were unemployed, i.e. 5.6 percent of the labour force versus 4.9 percent in June 2009.

In June 2010, seasonally adjusted unemployment stood at 430 thousand, a decline by 5 thousand on May.

According to the house price index of existing own homes, prices of houses sold in June 2010 were down by an average of 1.4 percent on June 2009.

In May 2010, household spending on goods and services was 1.2 percent up on May 2009.

The mood among consumers has lifted in July. The consumer confidence index stood at -14,  versus -18 in June. Confidence improved after a gradual decline in the preceding months.

In May 2010 turnover in Dutch retail was down by 0.9 percent on the same period of 2009. Volume was down by 2.1 percent, while prices increased by 1.2 percent.

In May, the volume of goods exports was nearly 18 percent up on twelve months previously. The volume of exports has increased further in the first months of 2010.

In June this year, 635 businesses and institutions (excluding one-man businesses) in the Netherlands were declared bankrupt, an increase by more than 230 relative to May.