FILE PHOTO: People wear protective face masks as they shop at market, on the fourth day of an unprecedented lockdown across of all Italy imposed to slow the outbreak of coronavirus, in Naples, Italy March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Ciro de Luca
February 8, 2022
(Reuters) – Italian retail sales rose 0.9% in December from the month before, data showed on Tuesday, following a 0.4% fall in November.
Sales rose 9.4% in unadjusted year-on-year terms in December, ISTAT said.
The data are expressed in value terms and are not adjusted for consumer prices, which increased 4.2% in December from the year earlier, based on Italy’s EU-harmonised index (HICP).
ISTAT gave the following data:
Dec Nov Oct
Mth/Mth change* 0.9 -0.4 0.3r
Yr/yr change** 9.4 12.4r 4.0
Food sales (m/m) 1.7 -0.5r 0.0
Non-food sales (m/m) 0.3 -0.1r 0.3r
*seasonally adjusted
**unadjusted
r=revised
(Reporting by Enrico Sciacovelli, editing by Agnieszka Flak)
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