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Finns make more card payments in 2024 Q4
The customers of Finnish banks and payment institutions made a total of 616 million card payments in the October-December period of 2024, representing an increase of 4%…
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Mercedes-Benz agrees cost-cutting package with staff
German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz has agreed a comprehensive package of cost-cutting measures with employees, reported dpa. Management and the general works council…
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Finland launches Europe’s 1st 50-qubit quantum computer
Finland's leading research institute VTT and computer company IQM announced on Tuesday that they have developed and launched Europe's first 50-qubit…
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Finnish vehicle stock grows by 1.2% in 2024
The Finnish vehicle register contained 7,337,934 vehicles at the end of 2024 and 5,257,813 of the vehicles were in traffic use, according to Statistics Finland. The…
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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 preliminary data on consumer prices, the…
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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 long-term January average, said the Bank…
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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, according to the international trade…
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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, according to Statistics Finland.…
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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 Finance in a press release. The key…
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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 the plant Teollisuuden Voima Oyj…
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