read more in Polish Market Review ECONOMY GDP growth at 6.7% y-o-y in Q2 2007-09-04 Another interest rate hike in August 2007-09-04 IPSOS: consumer moods take a turn for the worse in August 2007-09-04 LFS unemployment rate down to 9.6% in Q2 2007-08-27 The unemployment rate, measured according to the Labour Force Survey (LFS), was 9.6% in Q2 2007, as against 11.3% in the previous quarter, according to GUS. In the analysed period, the total number of people out of work stood at just over 1.6 million, which was roughly 763,000 fewer than during the [...] Industrial output up by 10.4% y-o-y in July 2007-08-27 Producer price growth slower at 1.5% y-o-y in July Retail sales rise 17.1% y-o-y in July 2007-08-27 2007-08-27 Investment outlays up by 31.4% in H1 2007-08-27 Enterprises report record financial results in H1 2007-08-27 PLN 616m state budget surplus at the end of July Wages jump 9.3% y-o-y in July 2007-08-20 2007-08-20 Employment up by 4.7% y-o-y in July High current account deficit in June 2007-08-20 2007-08-20 Foreign trade deficit at €7.3bn in H1 2007-08-20 Inflation rate down to 2.3% y-o-y in July 2007-08-20 High wage growth in Q2 2007-08-13 The average gross monthly wage in Poland surpassed PLN 2,644 (approx. €695) in the second quarter of this year, which is 8.9% higher than during the corresponding period of 2006, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) announced. The market had expected slightly lower growth. The data show an acceleration in earnings this year [...] PLN 1.08bn in privatisation revenues at the end of July 2007-08-06 Lewiatan Business Index: supply barriers hampering continued high growth BIEC: economy facing friction 2007-08-06 Interest rates remain unchanged in July 2007-07-30 2007-08-06 IPSOS: willingness to buy rises once more in July Retail sales up by 16.2% y-o-y in June Unemployment falls sharply in June 2007-07-30 2007-07-30 2007-07-30 Industrial output up 5.6% y-o-y in June 2007-07-23 Industrial output climbed 5.6% y-o-y in June, continuing the slowdown from the previous month, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) announced. The market had expected higher growth, i.e. on average in the region of 8% y-o-y. In comparison with the corresponding period of 2006, output was up in 19 of 29 industrial [...] Producer prices rise slowly by 1.8% y-o-y in June Wages growth at 9.3% y-o-y in June 2007-07-23 2007-07-23 Record high employment growth at 4.6% y-o-y in June Low central budget deficit in H1 2007-07-23 2007-07-23 Inflation rate up to 2.6% y-o-y in June 2007-07-16 Foreign trade deficit at €6.1bn in January-May Current account deficit high at €1.2bn in May IPSOS: consumer moods dip slightly in June 2007-07-16 2007-07-16 2007-07-16 Slow rate of privatisation in H1 2007 2007-07-09 In the first six months of this year gross revenues from privatisation amounted to just over PLN 1bn (approx. €264m), which represents one third of the plan for 2007 as a whole, according to data from the Ministry of the Treasury. The biggest privatisation transactions so this year were the PLN 326m [...] Lewiatan Business Index: lower GDP growth in Q2 BIEC: H2 likely to be weaker than H1 2007-07-09 2007-07-09