In February 2014, according to provisional estimates, the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) decreased by 0.1% compared with the previous month and rose by 0.5% with respect to February 2013 (0.2 lower than in January 2014).<\/p>\n
The slowdown of inflation was mainly due to volatile components, such as unprocessed food and energy. Excluding these components, core inflation was stable at 1.0%. Excluding only energy, the inflation was 0.9%, down from 1.0% in January 2014.<\/p>\n
The decrease on monthly basis of All items index was mainly due to the decline of prices of Fresh vegetables and Fresh fruit (respectively -4.6% and -1.0% compared with January 2014) \u2012 on which seasonal factors had an impact \u2012 and to monthly decrease of prices of Non-regulated energy products (-0.9%); the monthly decrease of prices of Services related to communication (-0.7%) had a downward impact, too.<\/p>\n
The annual rate of change of prices of Goods fell to -0.1% (from +0.3% in January 2014), while the annual rate of change of prices of Services rose to 1.2% (+1.1% in the previous month). As a consequence, the inflationary gap between Services and Goods increased by 0.5 percentage points with respect to January 2014.<\/p>\n
Prices of Grocery and unprocessed food decreased by 0.3% on monthly basis and rose by 0.9% on annual basis (down from +1.3% in January 2014).<\/p>\n
In February 2014, according to preliminary estimates, the Italian harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) decreased by 0.3% compared with the previous month and rose by 0.5% with respect to February 2013 (0.1 lower than in January 2014). The decrease on monthly basis was also due to the winter sales of Clothing and footwear (-2.2% compared with January 2014), which are not taken into account in the national index NIC.<\/p>\n
Core inflation measured by Italian HICP was 1.1%, up from 1.0% in January 2014. Italian HICP, excluding energy, increased by 1.0% with respect to February 2013 (0.1 lower than in January 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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