Workers at the Šempeter pri Gorici-based company Mahle Electric Drives Slovenija, which is part of the German group Mahle, and the management reached a pay rise deal on Thursday, so the one-day strike planned for Monday was cancelled. The development comes after the workers staged a one-hour token strike on Tuesday.
The SBI TOP index of blue chips on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange closed 0.07% higher at 1,137.25 points on Thursday, the last trading day this week. The most active issue was pharma company Krka, which contributed over EUR 866,000 to the total daily turnover of nearly EUR 1.2 million.
The government is planning for a multi-modal logistics hub to be built as part of development of Maribor airport until 2025. The Smart Hub Maribor is to be expanded from the initial 50 hectares to 630 hectares in 2030, Infrastructure Minister Jernej Vrtovec announced after the government session on Thursday.
Banka Slovenije, Slovenia's central bank, celebrates its 30th anniversary tomorrow, as it was set up together with the country on 25 June 1991. "In this period, we have constructively contributed to the development of the country and participated in many important milestones for Slovenia," the bank said on the eve of the anniversary.
Residential property prices in the first quarter were on average 3.1% higher than in the previous quarter and 7.3% higher compared to the same period in 2020. The total value of residential property sold was EUR 297 million, which is EUR 33 million less than in the fourth quarter of last year and about the same as in the first quarter of 2020.
Slovenia's business sentiment improved for the 7th straight month in June. The indicator is now at 8 percentage points, up 2.2 points from May and up 31.2 points year-on-year, the Statistics Office reported.
Slovenia issued on Wednesday its first sustainability bond to finance exclusively sustainable projects. Demand for the EUR 1 billion bond with a 10-year maturity date outstripped supply by far, the Slovenian Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.