Brief economic news of February 11, 2021
FHI, Federation of Technology Industries – February 11, 2021
- The RIVM reports 4472 new confirmed corona infections on Thursday. That is higher than the average of last week (3440). The occupancy in the hospitals decreased slightly.
- In 2021, the Dutch economy will grow by only 1.8 percent. This level of economic growth is the lowest that the European Commission (EC) expects for the nineteen euro countries this year. On the other hand, the Dutch economy has been hit less hard by the corona crisis than many other countries within the eurozone, writes De Volkskrant.
- The Belgian economy could be as big as before corona in the second half of 2022, the EC estimates. The commission thinks the Belgian economy will reach 3.9 percent this year, reports the VRT.
- Rabobank made a profit of over 1 billion euros in 2020. Yet let the bank know that it will cut five thousand jobs in the coming years.
- Sickness absence in the last quarter of 2020 was 4.9 percent. That is the highest score since 2002, according to reports CBSThe percentage was particularly high in health and welfare, at 6.8 percent.
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