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Rising oil prices were the biggest factor. The extractive industry exported $11.8 billion USD — nearly 60% of the nation's export value in the past six months.

This represents an uptick from the 8.7% rate registered in June 2017. The overall second quarter unemployment rate this year was 9.4%

This quarterly GDP growth represents an uptick from the meager 1.8% full-year growth in 2017 and is well above the 1.3% growth in the first quarter of 2017.

More than half of the total, or $1.57 billion USD, came from the hydrocarbon sector, per DANE.

The consumer price index (IPC) rose by just 0.24% from February to March, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 3.14%, down from 3.37% in February.

This was worst performance in eight years — below even the sluggish 1.96% growth of 2016 — and represents the third lowest rate this century.

In all, some 11.98 million tons of gray cement were shipped in 2017 compared to 12.1 million in 2016.

An increase over the past month in the recreation prices (up 0.68%) and housing prices (0.30%) helped to push up the overall consumer price index.

The October rate is up slightly from 3.97% last month and puts inflation outside of the central bank’s target rate for the first time since June.

July's rate of 3.4% is a decrease from the 3.99% seen in June and represents the 12th straight month that inflation has fallen.