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The price of the materials in chemical industrial grew up in the first quarter of the year
03/06/2005
on June 3, 2005
The rate of annual variation of the index of purchase prices, corresponding to the chemical industries sector stood in the first quarter of the year at + 14,28%. Also, the quarterly variation rate also recorded a strong inflationary rebound, although lower than in the case of the interannual variation, settling finally in + 4.58%.
Index Aerce of purchase prices of raw materials and products for purchase has registered a value of 101,94 to 1-4-2005. Thus, the year 2005 begins with a significant inflationary rebound, of the order of the (+ 1.94 per cent). Thus continues the upward trend that has been going for more than a year in prices of purchase of Spanish companies, and that one had been arrested in the last quarter of 2004.
If we look at the last data sectors, we see that those who have registered further increases in price during the beginning of 2005, have been, in this order, the materials metal non-ferrous metals (+ Delphinus per cent), the chemical industrial (+ 4.58%)the materials of construction (3.95%), the material of packing (+ 3.50%) and foods for hospitality and catering (+ 3.07 per cent).
Finally, the forecast calculated for the second quarter of 2005, 2005-7-1 data, is 101,80. I.e., expected that this bullish situation to stop, to give way to a slight readjust downward price media materials and products for purchase, which in this case will be of the order of the (-0.13 per cent).
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