ROMA (ITALPRESS) – In April, Istat estimates that the turnover of industry, net of seasonal factors, increases in economic terms by 0.3% in value and decreases by 1.0% in volume. Increases in value of 0.8% on the internal market (-1.2% in volume) and decreases by 0.6% on the foreign market (-0.7% in volume). For the service sector, an increase in terms of 0.1% in value and 0.3% in volume is estimated, a synthesis of a negative dynamic in wholesale trade (-0.6% in value and -1.7% in volume) and growth in other services (+0.8% in value and volume).
The seasonally adjusted indices of turnover in value related to the main groupings of industries recorded in April a conjunctural decrease for consumer goods (-0.4%) and for capital goods (- 1.8%), while a marked increase for energy (+11.4%) and a modest increase for intermediate goods (+0.6%). In the quarter of February-April 2026, in economic terms, industrial turnover, net of seasonal factors, increases in value (+2.0%) and decreases in volume (-0.5%).
In the same time, for services, there is an increase of 1.7% in value and a decrease of 0.1% in volume. On a tendential basis, the turnover of the industry, correct for the calendar effects, recorded an increase in value (+3.2%) and a decrease in volume (-0.6%), a synthesis of an increase of 3.5% in value and a bending of 0.9% in volume on the internal market and an increase of 2.6% in value and of a change in volume on the foreign market.
For the service sector, net of the calendar effects, there are 4.2% increase in value and 1.5% in volume. In wholesale trade there is a positive change of 4.2% in value and a decrease of 0.1% in volume, in other services growth is 4.0% in value and 2.0% in volume.
The calendar working days in April 2026 were 21 against 20 April 2025. The correct indices for the calendar effects of turnover in value related to the main groupings of industries record, on an annual basis, a decline for the only consumer goods (-3.5%), while marked increases for energy (+37.1%) and more contained increases for intermediate goods (+4.7%) and for instrumental ones (+0.8%).
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