8 November 2021 - Landsbankinn
The three major commercial banks released financial results for the first nine months of 2021 last week.
Last week’s highlights
- Statistics Iceland released the results of its labour force survey for Q3.
The week ahead
- On Wednesday, the CBI releases the results of its quarterly Survey of Market Expectations, the Icelandic Tourist Board publishes departures from Keflavík International Airport for October and the Directorate of Labour releases unemployment numbers for October.
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