Large firms labour indicators

In December 2010 the seasonally adjusted employment index in large firms was unchanged (+0.1% in industry and unchanged in services) compared with November 2010; net […]

Confidence in the Retail Trade

In February 2011, the seasonally adjusted confidence indicator increased from 99.8 to 101.0. Both assessments on present business situation and volume of stocks remained unchanged […]

Confidence in the construction

In January the seasonally adjusted confidence index in construction fell to 79 from 80 in December. Assessments of order books worsened (the balance declined from […]

Confidence in manufacturing

In February 2011 the seasonally adjusted confidence indicator in manufacturing declined to 103.0 from 103.4 in the previous month. The fall stemmed from a worsening […]

Confidence in the market services

The seasonally adjusted confidence indicator increased to 99.6 in February (from 98.5 in January). The improvement in confidence was due to more favourable expectations on […]

Retail trade

The retail trade index measures the monthly evolution of the turnover at current prices of enterprises with retail sale outlets. Since January 2009 the indices […]

Consumer price indices

The Consumer Price Index measures the change in prices over time of a set of goods and services (CPI basket) representative of Italian household consumption. […]

Consumer confidence

The confidence index goes up from 105.9 in January to 106.4. The increase is mainly due to the optimism on short-term expectations both on country […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in January 2011. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in January […]

Industrial turnover and orders

In December 2010 the seasonally adjusted turnover index decreased by 0.3% with respect to the previous month (-0.2% in domestic market and -0.4% in non-domestic […]