Industrial producer prices rise by 3.5 per cent

Industrial producer prices as a whole were 3.5% higher in March 2018 than in the same period of the previous year, the Hungarian Central Statistical Office reported this Thursday. Industrial domestic output prices rose by 3.3%.

Domestic output prices increased by 3.3% on average, within which the prices of manufacturing, representing a weight of six-tenths, rose by 3.2% and the prices of energy industry (electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply), with a weight of over one-third, by 3.7% compared to a year earlier. Industrial non-domestic output prices went up by 3.6% compared to March of the previous year.