TEHRAN (ANA)- Slovenia's annual inflation fell to 4.2 percent in December, down from 10.3 percent in December 2022, the country's Statistical Office said. It was the lowest level since October 2021.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Italy's lower house passed the new budget law, providing a definitive green light to a package worth some 28 billion euros (30.9 billion U.S. dollars) for 2024, according to the Italian parliament.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Malta's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow at a faster pace than previously projected, the Central Bank of Malta said.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Norway's central bank (Norges Bank) raised its main interest rate by 0.25 percentage point to 4.5 percent.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Italy registered a trade surplus of 24.9 billion euros (27.1 billion U.S. dollars) in the first 10 months of this year, in sharp contrast to a trade deficit a year earlier, the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) said.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Ukraine's foreign exchange reserves rose 39 percent year-on-year in November to about 38.8 billion U.S. dollars, data from the country's central bank showed.

TEHRAN (ANA)- The energy price cap in Great Britain will increase by 5 percent in the first quarter of 2024, pushing bills up to 1,928 British pounds (2,415 U.S. dollars) a year for a typical household, energy regulator Ofgem said.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Germany's economy is on the brink of recession as the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in the third quarter (Q3) of 2023 declined by 0.1 percent compared to the previous quarter, according to confirmed figures published by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).

TEHRAN (ANA)- The Dutch economy contracted in the third quarter of 2023, which already was the third quarterly shrinkage of the year, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) said.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Slovenia's economy shrank by 0.2 percent in the third quarter (Q3) of this year compared to the previous three-month period, the first quarterly decline after three consecutive quarters of growth, the country's Statistical Office said.