Romania’s producer prices declined at a slower pace in February, figures from the National Institute of Statistics showed Thursday.
The producer price index fell 1.7 percent year-over-year in February, slower than January’s 2.1 percent decrease.
Domestic market producer prices slipped 0.6 percent annually in February, following a 1.0 percent drop in the previous month.
Producer prices in the foreign market declined at a slower pace of 4.1 percent in February, after a 4.3 percent fall in January.
Among sub-sectors, prices in the manufacturing sector dipped 3.0 percent and mining and quarrying prices plunged by 7.4 percent.
Month-on-month, producer prices rose 0.2 percent in February, in contrast to a 0.3 percent decrease in the preceding month. Both domestic and export market prices climbed 0.2 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively.
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