Estonia Industrial Output May 2008

Estonia's industrial production fell the most in nine years in May, providing us with the latest evidence (following yesterday's retail sales data) that the Baltic economy has slipped into what now seems likely to become a pretty deep recession. Output, adjusted for working days, decreased an annual 6.7 percent, the biggest decline since May 1999, compared with a revised 0.1 percent fall in April, according to data from the Estonian statistics office released today. Production fell a monthly 4.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis.



Industrial output, led by food production and wood procession, has now fallen for three straight months.