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Preliminary data from Statistics Poland show prices of sold industrial production rose 6.1% in September 2026 from a year earlier. Prices increased 0.7% compared with the previous month.
Portugal’s industrial producer-price index rose 9.2% year on year in September, with energy accounting for nearly all the acceleration.
Enterprise Singapore reported that Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports rose 68.4% year on year in September, after a 46.1% rise in August.
Slovenia issued 489 building permits in September, 3% fewer than a year earlier. The permits covered 244 planned dwellings, down 37% year on year.
Statistics Sweden reported 466,000 unemployed people aged 15–74 in September 2026, an unadjusted unemployment rate of 8.1%. The number of employed people was 5.292 million.
Switzerland’s combined Producer and Import Price Index rose 0.3% month on month to 100.7 points in September 2026, the Federal Statistical Office reported. The index uses December 2025 as its base of 100.
Taiwan’s export orders reached US$114.21 billion in September 2026, up 62.4% from a year earlier, the Ministry of Economic Affairs reported on 20 October. The month-on-month increase was 10.9%, or 1.1% after seasonal adjustment.
The national statistics office reported unemployment was 2.2 percentage points higher than a year earlier, with higher rates among women and young people.
Construction production in Slovenia fell 5.1% in August 2026 from the previous month, according to Eurostat’s first calendar- and seasonally adjusted estimate.
New industrial orders in Slovakia fell 1.9% year on year to €4.95 billion in August 2026, the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic reported. Seasonally adjusted orders declined 5.3% from July.
A 20 October Microsoft report describes Saint-Gobain researchers using the Microsoft Discovery AI platform to search patents and scientific abstracts while exploring cement additives. The team generated hypotheses about possible ingredients that still require testing.
Samsung Electronics said a series of “The Brief” home-appliance technology seminars took place across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Southwest Asia and Southeast Asia. The company’s 20 October recap described AI-enabled appliances tailored to regional living conditions.
