in October, the nation’s economic output grew 2.9 percent last year compared with the corresponding period.

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Many of the economic forecasts drawn up by the party have recently weakened the Finnish economy next year, growth forecasts and some are at the same time estimated that the Finnish economy has started coughing already the end of the year.

according to Statistics finland on Friday published by the national economy production figures do not support the idea. The October output was 2.9% higher than a year earlier. Seasonally adjusted production in October was 0.2% in the previous months at lower levels.

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But in September, the production increased to the revised estimate of 3.4% (was 3.2) in the previous year’s September and it’s years of hard production figures. The October figure is in the third highest production figure.

– there is No noticeable slow down, mr Antti Kosunen from Statistics finland said.

the national economy production is not quite the same figure as gross domestic product, which measures economic growth.

– It’s close, but not quite the whole picture.

Kosusen also many other Statistics in recent weeks published statistics, such as industrial production, trade sales and payroll to provide a similar, positive picture of economic development.

Thursday, the bureau of Statistics reported that payroll was August to October, 4.4 per cent higher than in the corresponding period a year earlier, and in October the wages and salaries sum grew by as much as 4.8 percent from the previous year.