Industrial prices have slightly gone up

The industrial prices in April rose by 0.6% from March, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting the National Bureau of Statistics. The industrial price index diminished by 3.2% from last December and by 4.3% from last April. Prices in the extractive industry fell by 5.2% from December 2008, by 0.6% from March this year and by 0.4% from April 2008. In the processing industry, the prices dropped by 3.4% from last December, by 5.6% from last April and increased by 0.6% from this March. Prices in the energy sector remained at the same level as in December 2008 and March 2009, but rose by 22.7% from April 2008.