Industry, production quarter -0.4% – ANSA.it

New fall in industrial production in June 2016. Istat recorded a decrease of 0.4% compared to May and by 1% compared to 2015. This is the highest tendency to fall from January 2015 (when it was the 2.1%). Compared to May all groupings were down except capital goods, stationary. Fall intermediate goods (-1.1%), consumer (-1.0%) and energy (-0.7%). On average for the first six months of the year, however, production increased by 0.8% compared to the same period last year.

In trend terms the decline in June is the same (-1 %) both for raw data, for which the correct ones for calendar (days effects were processed as 21 in 2015). Showed an increase on the year only intermediate goods (+ 0.8%), however diminish the energy (-5.5%) and, to a lesser extent, consumer goods (-2.1%) and capital goods (-0.3%). Among the sectors of economic activity, see the greatest growth trend in the manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products, medical equipment, measuring equipment and watches (+ 2.3%), metallurgy and manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment (+ 1.4%) and the manufacturing of chemical products (+ 0.8%). The largest decreases are instead recorded in mining (-19.2%), manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations (-7.0%) and manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products (-4.8% ).

in the middle of the second quarter of 2016, the industrial production registered a 0.4% decrease against the previous quarter. This was communicated by Istat, which in the previous three months had recorded a 0.4% growth. That of the second quarter of 2016 is the worst quarterly result since the third quarter of 2014, when the decline was 0.7%.

The Italian car production after two years of strong growth in June marks a decrease of 1% over the previous year in the data adjusted for calendar effects. It ‘the first minus sign in May 2014 (when the decline was 3.7%). The notes Istat. In the first six months of the year the output of the industry is still in a 8.3% trend growth.