According to preliminary estimates, in August 2019 the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) increased by 0.5% on monthly basis and by 0.5% with respect to August 2018 (slightly up from +0.4%).<\/p>\n
The dynamics of all items index was the result of a situation with very small differences with respect to July. It is just worth to report the slight speed-up of prices of food including alcohol (from +0.7% in July to +1.0%), mainly due to those of Processed food (from +0.1% to 0.6%), and of prices of Non-durable goods (from +0.2% to +0.7%).<\/p>\n
The core inflation excluding energy and unprocessed food was +0.6% (up from +0.5%) and inflation excluding energy was +0.7% (up from +0.6%).<\/p>\n
The increase on monthly basis of all items index was mainly due to prices of services related to transport (+4.5%), whose dynamics was affected by seasonal factors.<\/p>\n
The annual rate of change of prices of Goods was +0.1% (up from -0.1% in the previous month) and that one of prices of services was +0.9% (down from +1.0% in July 2019). As a consequence, the inflationary gap between services and goods was still positive (+0.8 percentage points; +1.1 in the previous month).<\/p>\n
Prices of grocery and unprocessed food increased by 0.4% on monthly basis and by 1.0% on annual basis (up from +0.6% in the previous month).<\/p>\n
In August 2019, according to preliminary estimates, the rate of change of Italian harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) was null compared with the previous month and equal to +0.5% with respect to August 2018 (up from +0.3% in July).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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