2010.03.26 | ALL NEWS

NEWS OF WEEK

● Belarusian average wage up 1.6% on month in Feb 2010 to Br 1,016,400

● Statistics Committee says share of loss-makers up to 17.4% as of Feb 1

● Belarus, Brazil eye cooperation in trade, economy, investment, technologies

● Statistics Committee says number of unemployed up 7.9% in Jan-Feb

● FDI net inflow in Belarus down 14.7% in 2009 to $1.833 billion

● Belarus posts republican budget surplus at 0.4% of GDP in Jan-Feb

● Belarusian companies’ budget arrears up 74% in Jan 2010 to 102.1 bln

● The World Bank commends Belarus for its economic development

● Steel rolled stock output in Russia up 35.8% in Jan–Feb

● Russia’s ChTPZ Group pipe supplies up 33% in Jan–Feb

● DJ Severstal preparing for new Lucchini sale tender – sources

● Belarusian Metal Plant’s Jan-Feb steel output down 2.4%

● Supreme Court refuses to re-examine Arkhangelsk mill privatization

● Russian mill Kama to open 6 bln rbl chalk paper facility in 2010

● Russia's meat output down 4.2% in Jan–Feb

● Russia's agricultural output up 3.2% in Jan–Feb

● Russia changes terms for setting raw sugar import duty

● Belarus creates company to sell sugar in Ukraine

● Belarusian sales of cigarettes, alcohol go up in Jan-Feb

● Belarusian vodka, hard liquor output up 1.9% on year in Jan-Feb

● Belarus ups milk procurement prices 9.8% on average

● Belarusian soft drink output down 3.5% in January-February

● Juice sales in Belarus up 12.7% in Jan-Feb

● Belarusian beer output down 10.9% in Jan-Feb to 4.5 mln decaliters