October 2017 : Output price index +1.6%

Consumer prices
October 2017 : Output price index +1.6%

In October 2017, compared to the previous month, the producer price index of industry excluding construction has increased by 1.6%. A split of this figure in energy and the rest shows a rise of 4.0% for energy and a rise of 0.5% for total industry except energy. A further breakdown of total industry except energy obtains +0.8% for intermediate goods, except energy, +0.1% for capital goods, +0.1% for durable consumer goods and +0.3% for non-durable consumer goods.

When the general producer price index is subdivided according to destination, a rise of 2.4% on the domestic market and a rise of 0.7% on the non-domestic markets can be observed.

Compared to October of the previous year, the producer price index of total industry excluding construction has increased by 5.6%. For the domestic market it rose by 6.9%, for the non-domestic markets there was a rise of 1.7%.