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Industrial prices rose in December for the first time in a year
25/01/2010
January 25, 2010
Industrial prices rose by 0.1% in December 2009 from the previous month, and grew by 0.4% in annual terms after be falling for 11 consecutive months, according to the National Institute of statistics (INE). Thus, during the last month of 2009, industrial prices managed to place its annual rate at positive levels for the first time since December 2008.
The activity that most influenced the interannual rise in December was coking and oil refining, which registered a rise in their prices of 21.7%. By economic destination of the goods, the rates of change with respect to December 2008 were - 0.5% for consumer goods (- 0.6% the consumer goods not lasting and durable consumer goods unchanged), 0.1 per cent for equipment- 2.7 per cent for intermediate goods and 6.3 per cent for energy.
