Indicators show no signs of overheating International. This relatively high figure confirms that the economic boom is continuing. The period of increasing growth is not only stable, it is also remarkably long. Longer than it has ever been since the early seventies. Industrial production has shown increasing growth in the course of the year.
Household consumption seems to be tapering off in the third quarter.
Particularly spending on durable goods is slowing. Consumer confidence in the Dutch economy hardly changed in November, and remained at a high level. Registered unemployment stabilised at just over 200 thousand in the period August-October. The number of bankruptcies pronounced in the first nine months continued to fall. Of the 39 quarters this decade there have been seven.