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Inflation was 3.2 percent in August.

The most recent figures released by Statistics Netherlands show that inflation was 2.4 percent in December, i.e. below the level of the preceding months when inflation varied around 2.6 percent lag.

The Dutch economy shrank by 2.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 compared with the same quarter in 2008. This second estimate is unchanged from the first estimate published on 12 February 2009.

In June, business services providers anticipating turnover growth during the next three months were outnumbered by those anticipating a decline. The index stood at -5 in June versus +15 in May.

Adjusted for seasonal variation, there were 91 thousand unfilled vacancies at the end of June, a reduction by 6 thousand relative to the first quarter, which means that the downward trend continues.

For the third in a row, the inflation rate was stable at 2.5 percent in March 2012.

According to figures released today, there were 118 thousand job vacancies at the end of March 2012, after correction for seasonal effects.

Inflation in the Netherlands fell to 2.4 percent in April 2012. In March inflation was 2.5 percent.

By the end of September, there were 108 thousand seasonally corrected job vacancies, down 1 thousand on the previous quarter. The number of vacancies fell considerably faster in the previous three...

The amount of hours worked in temp jobs increased for the fifth consecutive quarter. In the second quarter of 2011, it grew by more than 2 percent relative to the preceding quarter. This means growth...

Retail sales in the second quarter of 2011 were 1.4 percent up on the second quarter of 2010.

Inflation was 1.9 percent in December, versus 1.6 percent in November. December’s rate is the second highest after March 2009.

In October 2007 Dutch retail trade realised a turnover that was 6.2 percent higher than a year earlier.

The Dutch inflation rate reached 2.1 percent in April, exceeding the 2.0 percent barrier for the first time since November 2008. The rate in March was 2.0 percent.

Seasonally adjusted unemployment averaged 347 thousand in the period March-May 2007; this is 7 thousand below the average over the period February-April.

Retail sales were 4 percent down in July 2012 from the same month last year. Retail prices rose by 1.7 percent, the volume of sales shrank by 5.6 percent.

Nowhere in Europe has consumer confidence fallen by so much as in the Netherlands.

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

Household spending was 1.0 percent higher in December 2010 than in December 2009.

An average 321 thousand people in the Netherlands were unemployed in the period December 2007- February 2008. This is the equivalent of 4.2 percent of the labour force.