NEWS RELEASE PRICES 30 JULY 2008


The producer price index (PPI) in June 2008 was 153.0 points (4. quarter 2005 = 100), 3.7% higher than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products was 173.3 points which is 7.4% higher than in May (effect on the index 2.5%) and the PPI for power intensive industry products was 195.1 points, 3.4% higher (0.8%). The PPI for food products was 0.2% higher than in May (0.0%). The PPI for other manufactured products increased 1.4% (0.3%).

The PPI for domestically sold products was 0.4% higher than in the previous month (0.1%) while the index for exported products increased 5.6% (3.6%).

From June 2007 the PPI has increased 29.5%. The PPI for fish products has increased 44.7% and the PPI for power intensive industry products has risen 36.1%. In the same period the PPI for food products rose 14.1%.

Basic weights for the PPI are revised annually and are as of June 2008 based on Statistics Iceland’s PRODCOM survey for the years 2006 and 2007.

Monthly changes (%)
Marine Power intensive Food  Domestic Exported
  PPI products industry products production sales products
2007
June -0.1 -1.0 -1.3 -0.1 0.8 -0.7
July -2.3 0.0 -6.5 0.1 -1.1 -3.0
August 4.8 5.7 9.1 -0.1 0.7 7.3
September -1.8 0.8 -8.3 0.9 0.0 -2.8
October -2.5 -1.9 -7.8 0.6 -0.1 -4.0
November 1.0 2.7 2.3 1.0 -1.1 2.3
December 2.2 2.0 4.6 0.1 0.5 3.2
2008
January 2.0 3.1 -0.8 1.4 2.9 1.5
February 3.1 3.1 6.0 0.6 1.4 4.1
March 9.2 12.6 20.8 1.0 -0.9 15.1
April 6.3 3.2 11.7 6.3 6.7 6.1
May 1.1 -0.4 0.4 1.4 2.5 0.4
June 3.7 7.4 3.4 0.2 0.4 5.6

Annual changes (%)
Marine Power intensive Food  Domestic Exported
  PPI products industry products production sales products
2007
June -4.8 -4.5 -14.8 2.3 4.1 -9.5
July -6.5 -6.8 -10.2 2.2 0.9 -10.7
August 0.2 1.0 2.1 2.2 1.7 -0.9
September -1.6 0.0 -4.2 3.3 2.0 -4.0
October -3.0 -0.3 -10.0 4.0 1.7 -6.0
November -4.6 -0.8 -14.3 5.2 0.7 -7.8
December -4.2 0.7 -12.6 3.6 -0.2 -6.6
2008
January -3.1 3.4 -16.8 4.3 2.5 -6.4
February 3.1 10.5 -8.4 4.1 4.2 2.4
March 12.5 24.8 10.3 5.6 2.5 18.3
April 20.3 28.3 27.8 12.1 9.2 26.6
May 24.7 33.4 29.9 13.7 12.5 31.7
June 29.5 44.7 36.1 14.1 12.0 40.1

In evaluating the price changes accounted for here, it may be taken into consideration that the trade-weighted average price of foreign exchange in June 2008 was 5.0% higher than in the preceding month and 40.5% higher than in June 2007.

Statistics

Further Information

For further information please contact 528 1100 , email upplysingar@hagstofa.is

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