Confidence of trade and service enterprises

The seasonally adjusted market services confidence indicator decreased to 85.0 in November (from 87.4 in October). The index increased in Tourism services (to 91.1) and […]

Confidence in manufacturing and construction

In November the seasonally adjusted confidence indicator in manufacturing rose to 94.4 from 94.2 in October. 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 […]

Production in construction

In September 2011 the seasonally adjusted index decreased by 4.4% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter July-September, […]

Agricultural products prices

The agricultural price indices provide information on trends in purchase prices of the means of production  and producer prices of agricultural products. Since January 2009 […]

Consumer confidence

The confidence index grows in November from 93.3 to 96.5. The improvement is mainly due to a widespread optimism particularly focused on the short term […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

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

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 […]

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. […]

Foreign trade

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