Dutch Market Moves? Paolo Pavan Explains Why

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Netherlands Housing Market, July 2025: Prices Rise 8.6% Year-on-Year

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Q: Are we back in a housing bubble like before? "Not exactly. Prices are rising again, up 8.6% in July compared to last year, but this isn’t the wild 20% jumps we saw in 2021–2022. Back then it was fr...

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Aug 22, 2025

Investments Rise in June, But Who Is Really Investing?

by Paolo Maria Pavan

June 2025 brought us a headline that looks good at first sight: investments in tangible fixed assets were 8.3 percent higher than a year earlier, according to CBS. A figure that makes us breathe a lit...

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Aug 20, 2025

Dutch Job Market Q2 2025: Fewer Moves, More Caution

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Three hundred and five thousand. (305.000) That’s the number of employees who changed employers in the second quarter of 2025. It sounds big, until you notice that, three years earlier, the same figur...

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Aug 15, 2025

June’s Dutch Export Numbers: A Modest Rise Amid Germany’s Industrial Slowdown

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Exports Up, Germany Down: Reading Between the Lines Statistics Netherlands tells us that in June, the volume of Dutch goods exports, adjusted for working days, was up 1.8% compared to June 2024. Machi...

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Aug 14, 2025

July’s Dutch Business Numbers: The Calm, the Churn, and the Illusion of Growth

by Paolo Maria Pavan

In July 2025, 299 companies were declared bankrupt in the Netherlands. That’s 109 fewer than the same month in 2024 , a 27% drop, and 4% fewer than in June. At first glance, this is the kind of number...

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Aug 13, 2025

Dutch Inflation Cools to 2.9% in July 2025

by Paolo Maria Pavan

When I look at the July 2025 inflation figure, 2.9% year-on-year, down from 3.1% in June, I don’t just see a number. I see a pulse. A soft beat in the economic bloodstream telling us the patient, our ...

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Aug 12, 2025

The 0.7% That Speaks Volumes

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Numbers are often treated like weather forecasts, glanced at, maybe discussed, then forgotten. But behind each percentage point, there is a story about how we live, choose, adapt, and sometimes contra...

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Aug 11, 2025

Dutch Industry’s June Dip: A Story About Margins, Machines, and the Meaning Behind the Numbers

by Paolo Maria Pavan

We live in an age obsessed with percentages. The Dutch industry in June produced 0.2 percent less than the same month last year, says CBS. A fraction of a percentage, easy to ignore. But every fractio...

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Aug 8, 2025

When the Barometer Rises, but the Compass Stays Uncertain

by Paolo Maria Pavan

There’s a peculiar kind of optimism in the Dutch business climate this quarter, one that doesn’t quite celebrate, but doesn’t retreat either. Like the moment a sailor notes the wind shifting after wee...

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Aug 7, 2025

When a Whisper Becomes a Warning: What Dutch Industrial Prices Are Telling Us

by Paolo Maria Pavan

There’s a peculiar sound in the Dutch economy lately, not a crash, not a siren, but something softer: the rustle of industrial prices sliding just a little, again. In June 2025, industrial sales price...

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Aug 6, 2025

Netherlands, July 2025: Inflation at 2.9%, But What Does Your Wallet Say?

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Let me begin with a story. In the Dutch summer of 2022, a friend of mine, a precision-driven restaurant owner in Amsterdam, told me something that struck harder than any macroeconomic report: "Paolo, ...

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Aug 5, 2025

Retail’s Quiet Roar: What 3.3% in June Really Tells Us

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Not All Growth Is Equal, And Not All Decline Is A Crisis When the Dutch retail sector reports a 3.3% increase in turnover for June 2025 compared to the same month in 2024, many instinctively raise a g...

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Aug 4, 2025

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