Press release No. 365 of 25 September 2018
Wholesale selling prices, August 2018
• +0.3% on the previous month
• +3.8% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the selling prices in wholesale trade increased by 3.8% in August 2018 from the corresponding month of the preceding year. In July 2018 and in June 2018 the annual rates of change were +3.6% and +3.4%, respectively.
From July 2018 to August 2018 the index rose by 0.3%.
The Federal Statistical Office of Germany for the first time presents the results of the recalculation of the selling prices in wholesale trade on base 2015 = 100.
More detailed data and long time series are available in table Index of wholesale prices (61281-0002) in the GENESIS-Online database.
