Turkey home sales fall in August as mortgage-backed deals rise
First-hand sales fell 4.5% and existing-home sales 19.4%, while mortgaged sales increased 7.2%.
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First-hand sales fell 4.5% and existing-home sales 19.4%, while mortgaged sales increased 7.2%.
Domestic producer prices rose 2.07% monthly; manufacturing prices gained 29.09% annually.
The index increased 2.87% monthly, while transport and storage prices rose 40.07% annually.
Services, production and construction all expanded during the month, according to ONS’s early estimate.
ONS attributes the largest contributions to clothing and footwear, restaurants and hotels, and housing.
The annual rate increased from 2.9%, with transport, especially motor fuels, making the largest upward contribution.
ONS says the early figure was 0.5% lower than a year earlier; survey-based unemployment remained 4.9%.
Both input and output producer-price inflation increased as petroleum products pushed on costs and selling prices.
The monthly recovery followed a July fall, while sales volumes gained 0.9% over the latest three-month period.
The CPI increased 0.4% in August, with gasoline contributing more than one-third of the monthly rise.
BLS reports a stronger monthly gain alongside an unchanged 4.1% unemployment rate.
BLS reports little monthly movement in openings, hires and separations in its July labour-turnover survey.
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