NEWS RELEASE PRICES 30 OCTOBER 2015

The producer price index (PPI) in September 2015 was 205.9 points (4. quarter 2005 = 100), which is 2.7% lower than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products was 265.1 points which is 2.6% lower than in August 2015 (effect on the index -0.8%) and the PPI for power intensive industry products was 185.7 points, 7.9% lower than in the previous month (-2.7%). The PPI for food products remained unchanged between months while the index for other manufactured products increased by 4.5% (0.8%).

The PPI for domestically sold products was 1.7% (0.5%) higher than in the previous month while the index for exported products decreased by 4.5% (-3.2%).

Compared with September 2014, the PPI has decreased by 2.9%. The PPI for fish products increased by 2.4% and the PPI for power intensive industry has decreased by 16.0%. The price of food products has increased by 3.1%.

Monthly changes (%)
      Power       
      intensive      
    Marine industry Food  Domestic Exported
  PPI products  products production sales products
2014            
September 1.7 -1.8 4.8 -0.4 1.4 1.9
October 1.2 2.0 0.7 0.7 0.7 1.3
November 0.6 1.5 0.2 -0.3 -0.2 0.8
December 3.3 2.1 6.5 0.2 0.9 4.2
2015            
January 0.2 1.0 -0.6 -0.2 -0.1 0.3
February -2.0 -1.9 -4.2 -0.5 0.2 -2.8
March 2.4 1.6 5.0 -0.3 0.2 3.3
April -0.8 0.7 -3.3 0.0 0.3 -1.2
May 0.0 -0.9 -0.5 0.7 1.2 -0.4
June -0.4 1.0 -1.1 0.2 -0.4 -0.3
July -2.5 1.0 -6.6 1.4 -0.7 -3.2
August -2.1 -2.9 -4.3 1.2 0.8 -3.4
September -2.7 -2.6 -7.9 0.0 1.7 -4.5
Annual changes (%)
      Power       
      intensive      
    Marine industry Food  Domestic Exported
  PPI products  products production sales products
2014            
September 4.4 2.5 8.5 1.6 2.9 4.9
October 6.5 4.1 12.1 0.9 3.9 7.4
November 6.1 4.8 9.1 0.5 4.2 6.8
December 12.2 9.6 24.9 1.1 2.9 15.6
2015            
January 14.2 14.0 24.8 0.5 3.3 18.3
February 12.1 13.2 22.0 0.4 1.2 16.0
March 15.9 13.3 31.5 0.0 2.5 20.9
April 14.4 11.2 28.2 -0.7 2.2 18.9
May 12.5 9.6 18.9 0.0 5.4 15.0
June 11.0 9.2 20.2 0.3 2.3 14.1
July 7.4 8.8 7.5 1.5 4.0 8.4
August 1.5 3.3 -4.4 2.7 4.3 0.1
September -2.9 2.4 -16.0 3.1 4.7 -6.1

 

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