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The Dutch long-term interest rate, based on the return of the most recent ten-year government loan, averaged 3.0 percent in May, i.e. 0.3 of a percent point lower than in April.

In March, the volume of goods exports was 14 percent up on twelve months previously. This compares with a 10 percent rise in February, but it should be taken into account that the substantial...

In April, marketing prices in Dutch manufacturing were nearly 11 percent up on April 2009.

The Dutch number of hours worked in temp jobs dropped by more than 1 percent in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the fourth quarter of 2009.

In May 2010, the number of Dutch business services providers expecting turnover to increase in the next three months outnumbered those expecting a decrease. However, the difference was less obvious...

Manufacturers had reduced their stocks of finished products by more than 12 percent in March compared with March 2009.

Consumer confidence dropped marginally in May. The indicator stands at -16, as against -15 in April. The indicators economic climate and willingness to buy deteriorated slightly.

In the period February-April 2010, unemployment in the Netherlands averaged 459 thousand.

For the first time in over a year, Dutch household consumption has improved.

In the period February–April 2010, seasonally adjusted unemployment stood at 437 thousand, a decline by 9 thousand on the period January–March 2010. Unemployment dropped for the first time since the...

According to the price index of existing owner-occupied houses – a joint publication by Statistics Netherlands and the Land Registry Office – prices of houses sold in April 2010 were on average 2.2...

Following an unprecedented relapse in the first half of 2009, capacity utilisation in the Dutch manufacturing industry started to rise again at the beginning of 2010. The manufacturing industry in...

In March, the volume of goods exports was nearly 14 percent up on twelve months previously. This compares with a 10 percent rise in February, but it should be taken into account that the substantial...

The number of jobs of employees was 145 thousand lower in the first quarter of 2010 than in the first quarter of 2009; a fall of 1.8 percent. The decrease is in the same order of magnitude as in the...

The job vacancies in the Netherlands at 113 thousand at the end of March 2010, after correction for seasonal effects.

The average daily output of Dutch manufacturing industry was 7 percent up in March 2010 on March 2009. In February, output was 4 percent above the level of February 2009.

Dutch retailers generated 3 percent more turnover in March than in March 2009. Turnover increased for the first time after more than a year of losses compared with the same period one year previously.

Dutch retailers realised 2.9 percent more turnover in March 2010 than in the same month last year.

The Dutch economic growth in the first quarter of 2010 at 0.1 percent compared with the same quarter last year.

The Dutch economy grew by 0.1 percent in the first quarter compared with the same period in 2009. The marginal increase was preceded by five quarters of negative growth.

After adjustment for seasonal effects, 113 thousand jobs were vacant at the end of March 2010 in the Netherlands, 11 thousand fewer than at the end of December.

In April this year, 485 businesses and institutions (excluding one-man businesses) in the Netherlands were declared bankrupt.

Dutch inflation rose to 1.1 percent in April 2010. This is 0.1 of a percent point higher than in March.

In April 2010, Dutch inflation was 1.1 percent, i.e. 0.1 of a percent point up on March.