Italy's producer price index continued to rise in February

According to the report from National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), in February 2021, compared with the previous month, industrial producer prices increased by 0.5%. On domestic market producer prices increased by 0.5%, on non-domestic market they increased by 0.6%.

Over the last three months, compared to the previous three months, industrial producer prices increased by 1,7% (+2.0% for the domestic market, +0.9% for the non-domestic market).

In February 2021, compared with February 2020, industrial producer prices increased by 0.7% (+0.7% on domestic market, +0.4% on foreign market).

In February 2021 construction producer prices of residential buildings and non-residential buildings increased by 0.4% on monthly basis and by 2.1% on annual basis; construction producer prices of roads and railways stayed unchanged compared with the previous month and increased by 1.7% on annual basis.

Over the last three months, compared to the previous three months, construction producer prices increased by 1.2% both for residential buildings and non-residential buildings and increased by 1.1% for roads and railways.