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Consumer prices (provisional data)

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In August 2015, according to preliminary estimates, the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) rose by 0.2% on both monthly and annual basis (the same annual rate of change observed in July 2015).

Inflation is stable for the most of the typologies of product and the few movements registered tend to offset each other. Among these, we point out the further decrease of prices of Non-regulated energy products (-10.4%, from -8.7% in July 2015) and the trend reversal, but with an opposite sign, respectively of prices of Services related to transport (-0.1%, from +0.7% in the previous month) and of prices of Services related to communication (+1.4%, from -0.3% in July 2015).

Excluding energy and unprocessed food, core inflation was 0.7% (down from +0.8% registered in July 2015); excluding energy, the inflation was stable at 0.8%.

The increase on monthly basis of All items index was mainly due to the rise of prices of Services related to transport (+2.9%) – on which seasonal factors had an impact – and to the rise of prices of Services related to communication (+1.8%); this increase was partially offset by the monthly decrease of prices of Non-regulated energy products (-2.5%).

The annual rate of change of prices of Goods was -0.5% (from -0.3% observed in July 2015) and the annual rate of prices of Services was +0.7% (down from +0.8% in the previous month). As consequence, the inflationary gap between Services and Goods increased by 0.1 percentage points with respect to July 2015.

Prices of Grocery and unprocessed food increased by 0.1% on monthly basis and was stable at 0.7% on annual basis.

In August 2015, according to preliminary estimates, the Italian harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) held steady with respect to the previous month and rose by 0.5% on annual basis (up from +0.3% registered in July 2015).

Core inflation measured by Italian HICP was 1.1%, up from 0.9% in July 2015; excluding energy, food, alcohol and tobacco, the inflation was 1.1% (0.1 higher than in July 2015). Excluding energy, the inflation rose to 1.2%, up from 0.9% registered in the previous month.

Next release: 14 September 2015

Reference period: August 2015

Date of Issue: 31 August 2015

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