Producer prices in industry go up
The producer prices in industry this April have increased by 1.8% on last December and by 5.8% on last April, but remained at the same level as in March, Info-Prim Neo reports.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the prices in extractive industry last month rose by 0.3% on a month before, by 2.7% on December 2011, but fell by 1.1% on April 2011.
In the processing industry, the prices in April decreased by 0.1% on this March, but increased by 2.1% on last December and by 5.7% on last April. In the energy sector, they grew by 7.3% on last April, but remained at the same level as this March and last December.
Compared with March, the prices in April rose by 1.0% in the capital property industry, by 2.0% in the intermediary property industry (the energy sector exclusively), by 0.1% in the long-term usage property industry, but fell by 0.2% in the current usage goods industry.