Italy's annual inflation rate rose to
1.5% in January, up from 1.3% in December, according to
provisional data released by ISTAT on Monday.
The national statistics agency said its consumer price index for
the whole nation (NIC) was up by 0.6% in January in
month-on-month terms.
The increase of the growth on an annual basis of the all-item
index was mainly due to the prices of regulated energy products
(from +12.7% to +27.8%), of non-regulated energy products (from
-4.2% to -3.0%) and, to a lesser extent, of processed foods
including alcohol (from +1.7% to +2.0%), the national statistics
agency said.
The prices of services related to transport (from +3.6% to
+2.5%) and of communication services (from +1.2% to +0.9%)
slowed down, according to the bureau's provisional data.
Core inflation in January (excluding energy and unprocessed
food) was stable at +1.8% and inflation excluding energy was
+1.8% (from +1.7%), ISTAT said.
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