BERLINO, 27 febbraio (Reuters) - Germany's Federal
Statistics Office reported the following economic indicator on
Friday:
GERMAN IMPORT PRICES (Pct change)
JAN 15 DEC 14 JAN 14
Month-on-month -0.8 -1.7 -0.1
Year-on-year -4.4 -3.7 -2.3
Index (basis 2010) 100.2 101.0 104.8
NOTE - The Statistics Office said January saw the biggest
year-on-year drop in import prices since November 2009, when
they fell by 5.0 percent.
The Statistics Office said import prices for energy were 34.6
percent lower in January than a year earlier and 12.4 percent
lower than the previous month.
Excluding oil, import prices were up 0.8 percent month-on-month
and up 1.3 percent year-on-year.
The mid-range forecast of economists polled by Reuters had been
for a month-on-month fall in import prices of 1.0 percent and a
year-on-year drop of 4.6 percent ECONDE.