Bulgaria's economy grows 1.8% y/y in Q3 - prelim data

In the three months to end-September, Bulgaria's real economic output increased by 0.4% compared to the previous quarter, or by as much as it grew in the April-June period of this year, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said in a statement, citing preliminary and seasonally-adjusted data.

Bulgaria's third-quarter GDP amounted to roughly 48.5 billion levs ($26.7 billion/24.8 billion euro) at current prices.

(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)