ROMA (ITALPRESS) – In May 2026, industrial production prices decrease by 0.2% on a monthly basis and grow by 7.3% on an annual basis (was +6.8% in April). Istat detects it. On the internal market, we read in a note, “prices decrease by 0.5% compared to April while they grow by 9.1% annually (from +8.8% of the previous month)”.
Net of the energy sector, “prices record an increase of 0.4% and a trend growth of 2.4% (from +2.0% of April)”. On the foreign market prices increase by 0.6% on a monthly basis (+0.9% euro area, +0.3% non euro area) and by 2.7% on an annual basis (+3.1% euro area, +2.4% non euro area). In the quarter of March-May 2026, compared to the previous, “the prices for the production of the industry grow by 4.8%, with a more sustained dynamic on the internal market (+6.0%) than the foreign market (+1.7%)”.
In May 2026, among the manufacturing activities, the largest increase in the domestic market concerns coke and petroleum products refined (+67.6%); they follow chemicals (+8.0%) and metallurgy and manufacture of metal products, excluding machines and plants (+5.8%); on the foreign market, increases on a more marked annual basis are recorded for coke and refined petroleum products (+41.4% non euro area), others.
On the internal market, the tendential growth of the prices of the supply of electricity and gas is acceleration (+12.6%, from +10.3% of April). In May 2026, construction prices for residential and non-residential buildings grow by 0.3% on a monthly basis and by 2.5% on an annual basis (from +2.0% of April 2026); those of Roads and Railways decrease by 0.6% in terms of economic activity and grow by 4.0% in tendential terms (was +4.4% in April 2026). In the quarter of March-May 2026, compared to the previous, the prices of residential and non-residential buildings grow by 1.7%, those of Roads and railways by 4.1%.
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