27 The document provides relatively simple answers to different questions and journalists have used it for articles in the newspapers. Hence, the Q&A document proved very useful and has later been updated. In September 2018, the Council recommended an increase in the buffer rate to 1 per cent. 28 The representatives of the ministries stated on the  25 26  Cf.
In the United States, consumer confidence and spending weakened, possibly due to the strong increases in oil prices that had taken place; US industrial production was affected by the disruptions to global supply chains caused by the Japanese earthquake in March; employment growth slowed; and jobless claims, which had been gradually declining, started to rise again.