domestic market | The Malta Business Weekly https://maltabusinessweekly.com A New Voice for Business in Malta Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:30:29 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8 https://maltabusinessweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bw-favicon.svg domestic market | The Malta Business Weekly https://maltabusinessweekly.com 32 32 159130352 Industrial prices up 1.37% in August https://maltabusinessweekly.com/industrial-prices-up-1-37-in-august/6260/ Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:30:22 +0000 https://maltabusinessweekly.com/?p=6260 Malta's industrial producer price index increased by 1.37% in August, as compared to the same month a year earlier.

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]]> Malta’s industrial producer price index increased by 1.37% in August, as compared to the same month a year earlier, according to the most recent figures published by the NSO.

The overall growth was chiefly fuelled by a 1.88% increase in capital goods, a growth of 1.76% in intermediate goods and 1.43% in consumer goods. The energy sector saw no price changes, according to NSO figures.

The domestic market saw an industrial producer price growth of 0.73%. Prices of capital goods increased by 2.97%, consumer goods were up by 1.47% and intermediate goods were up by 0.07%.

Non-domestic prices were up by 1.81% due to a rise of 2.33% in the non-euro area and 0.83% in the euro area.

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