Friday, June 22, 2007

UPDATE 2-Colombia 1st-qtr GDP soars 8 percent vs year ago

(Reuters) - The quarterly figure represents the gross domestic product
without including growth from illicit drug crop cultivation.
With that data, the growth was 7.98 percent, according to the
DANE government statistics agency.




Construction for the first three months of the year
expanded 28.27 percent, industrial manufacturing grew 14.59
percent and the commercial, hotel and restaurant sector grew
11.15 percent, the DANE said in a statement.


Read more at Reuters.com Economic News

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