Press release No. 376 of 20 October 2016
WIESBADEN – In September 2016 the index of producer prices for industrial products fell by 1.4% compared with the corresponding month of the preceding year. In August 2016 the annual rate of change all over had been –1.6%.
Compared with the preceding month August 2016 the overall index fell by 0.2% in September 2016 (–0.1% in August and +0.2% in July).
In September 2016 energy prices decreased by 5.2 % compared with September 2015, prices of intermediate goods fell by 1.2%. In contrast prices of non-durable consumer goods rose by 0.7%, prices of capital goods by 0.6% and prices of durable consumer goods by 1.2%.
The overall index disregarding energy decreased by 0.1% compared with September 2015 and rose by 0.1% compared with August 2016.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Producer price indices for industrial products (61241-0004) in the GENESIS-Online database.