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Wed, 25 Nov, 2015 12:30:44 AM
FTimes Report, Nov 25
 
Producer Price Index (PPI) 2010=100, 1/2010–10/2015. Source: Producer Price Index 2015, October. Statistics Finland.
Producer prices for manufactured products fell by an average of 3.2 per cent from October 2014 to October 2015, according to Statistics Finland.
 
The producer prices for manufactured products sold on the domestic market and the producer prices of export products went down by 3.2 per cent.
 
The fall in the producer prices for manufactured products was particularly caused by reductions in the prices of oil products and manufacturing of basic metals from October 2014.
 
The fall in producer prices was slowed down especially by higher prices of paper and paper board products.
 
The export price index fell by 3.1 per cent and the import price index by 7.3 per cent in the year. The Basic Price Index for Domestic Supply went down by 4.1 per cent, the data show.
 
The Basic Price Index for Domestic Supply including taxes fell by 3.4 per cent.
 
Export prices were in particular depressed by the falling prices of oil products and manufacturing of basic metals from October 2014.
 
The fall in prices was slowed down especially by higher prices of paper and paper board products. The fall in import prices was in turn especially caused by lower prices of oil products and chemicals and chemical products compared with the previous year's October.
 
The fall in prices was slowed down, in particular, by higher prices of electronic appliances.
 
Producer prices for manufactured products fell by 0.3 per cent from September to October.
 
The drop was mainly due to lower prices of chemicals and chemical products from the previous month.
 

Producer Price Indices 2010=100, October 2015

 

  Index Monthly change, % Annual change, %
Producer Price Index, total 102.4 -0.3 -3.2
- Producer Price Index, domestic goods 104.7 -0.1 -3.2
- Producer Price Index, export goods 99.7 -0.5 -3.2
Export Price Index 99.8 -0.5 -3.1
Import Price Index 98.2 -0.4 -7.3
Basic Price Index for Domestic Supply 103.7 -0.3 -4.1
Basic Price Index for Domestic Supply, incl. taxes 106.9 -0.1 -3.4

Producer Price Indices 1949=100, October 2015

 

  Index Monthly change, % Annual change, %
Production Price Index 1888 -0.3 -3.2
Export Price Index 1629 -0.5 -3.1
Import Price Index 1465 -0.4 -7.3
Wholesale Price Index 2151 -0.1 -3.4

Source: Producer Price Index 2015, October. Statistics Finland.

 
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