April 3 (SeeNews) - Romania's industrial producer prices grew by 3.9% on the year in February due to a strong increase in manufacturing and mining, after posting 2.6% annual growth in January, the statistics office, INS, said on Monday.
On a month-to-month comparison basis, industrial producer prices rose by 0.2%, after increasing by 1.0% in January, the INS said citing provisional figures.
On the domestic market, industrial output prices increased by 3.1% in February, year-on-year, while on the external market they rose 5.6%.
Romania's February industrial producer prices, provisional data (pct change):
|
Feb y/y |
Jan y/y |
Feb m/m |
Jan m/m |
Total |
3.9 |
2.6 |
0.2 |
1.0 |
Mining |
4.1 |
5.1 |
0.0 |
2.8 |
Manufacturing |
4.8 |
3.1 |
0.8 |
0.4 |
Utilities |
0.3 |
0.4 |
-2.7 |
3.9 |
Water and waste management |
0.4 |
-0.8 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
source: INS