Confidence of trade and service enterprises

The seasonally adjusted market services confidence indicator improved to 87.3 in October (from 82.6 in September). The index increased in Transportation and storage (to 91.8), […]

Confidence in manifacturing and construction

In October the seasonally adjusted confidence indicator in manufacturing fell from 94.5 in September to 94.0. Assessments on order books worsened, while production expectations 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 […]

Consumer confidence

The confidence index falls in October from 94.2 to 92.9. The downswing is mainly due to a widespread pessimism particularly focused on the short term […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

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

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 August 2011. The results of […]

Consumer prices

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. […]

Industrial production

The index measures the monthly evolution of the volume of industrial production (excluding construction). Since January 2009 the indices have been calculated with reference to […]

Euro-zone economic outlook

After a sharp slowdown in Q2, real GDP growth in the euro area is expected to remain subdued until Q1 2012. The loss in GDP […]