Confidence in manufacturing and construction

In February the seasonally adjusted confidence indicator in manufacturing worsened to  91.5 from  92.1 in January. Assessments on order books worsened, while production expectations and […]

Confidence of trade and service enterprises

The seasonally adjusted market services confidence indicator increased to 79.1 in February (from 76.7 in January). The index increased in Information and communication (to 83.9), […]

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 increases in February from 91.8 to 94.2. The result is mainly due to an improvement of the economic component, particularly focused on […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

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

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 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 […]

Production in construction

In December 2011 the seasonally adjusted index increased by 1.4% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter October-December, […]

Foreign Trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2005=100) referring to December 2011. The results of […]

Preliminary estimate of GDP

In the fourth quarter of 2011 the seasonally and calendar adjusted, chained volume measure of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) decreased by 0.7 per cent with […]