Consumer confidence

The confidence index lowers to 103.7 from 105.1 in March. The downswing is mainly due to a widespread pessimism on short-term expectations (from 93.7 to […]

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 […]

Extra-Eu foreign trade

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

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 price indices

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 February 2011. The results of […]

Industrial production

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

Euro-zone economic outlook

Euro-zone GDP growth softened in Q4 2010 (to +0.3%, after +0.4% in Q3), due to a weather-related postponement of construction investment, notably in Germany and […]

Households income and corporate profits

The analysis provided below is based on a selection of indicators derived from quarterly national accounts by institutional sector (QSA), which allow a timely analysis […]

Quarterly accounts for GG

The quarterly non-financial accounts for General Government analyse the dynamics of the main public finance indicators. Moreover, the account gives information on the aggregates constituting […]