Consumer and business confidence

In December 2018, the consumer confidence index worsened from 114.7 to 113.1. All the components lowered: the economic one from 131.5 to 129.4, the personal […]

Foreign trade with non-EU countries

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in November 2018. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in November […]

Industrial, construction and services producer prices

In November 2018 the total producer price index decreased by 0.7% compared with the previous month. Domestic producer price index decreased by 0.8%, while producer […]

Production in construction

In October 2018 the seasonally adjusted index of production in construction was estimated to have decreased by 1.6% compared to September 2018. Construction output also […]

Foreign trade and import prices

In October 2018 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to September 2018, increased both for outgoing flows (+2.5%) and for incoming flows (+2.1%). Exports rose both for non […]

Industrial turnover and orders

In October 2018 the seasonally adjusted turnover index decreased by 0.5% compared to the previous month (-0.7% in domestic market and -0.2% in non-domestic market); […]

Consumer prices

In November 2018 the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) decreased by 0.2% on monthly basis and increased by 1.6% with respect […]

Labour market

The third quarter of 2018 was characterized by a decrease in employment compared with the previous quarter, in a context of falling unemployment and rising […]

Export of Italian regions

In the third quarter of 2018, exports increased for all macro-regions in seasonally-adjusted terms, compared with the previous period: +4.3% in the South and Islands, […]

Industrial production

The index measures the monthly evolution of the volume of industrial production (excluding construction). With effect from January 2018 the indices are calculated with reference […]