Confidence in manufacturing and construction

In May the seasonally adjusted confidence indicator in manufacturing worsened to 86.2 from 89.1 in April. Assessments on order books and production expectations worsened, inventories […]

Confidence of trade and service enterprises

The seasonally adjusted market services confidence indicator decreased to 72.7 in May (from 75.8 in April). The index declined in Tourism services (to 60.9) and […]

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 […]

Contractual wages and salaries

The index of wages according to collective labour agreements measures the evolution of wages and salaries (per employee or per hour) determined by contractual provisions […]

Agricultural price indices

In the first quarter of 2012, the Input price index rose by 1.5% compared to the previous quarter and by 2.8% in comparison to the […]

Consumer confidence

The confidence climate index fell in May from 88.8 to 86.5. The decrease was notably explained by economic climate that decreased from 71.6 to 64.4. […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in April 2012. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in April […]

Industrial turnover and orders

The industrial turnover index measures the monthly evolution of sales by industrial enterprises at current prices. The new orders index is an indicator of the […]

Foreign trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2005=100) referring to March 2012. The results of […]

Production in construction

In March 2012 the seasonally adjusted index increased by 9.5% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter January-March, […]