In December last year, the index of producer prices for industrial products in Germany fell by 2.3 percent compared to the same month of 2014 and was down by 0.5 percent compared to November, according to the country's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). In November, Germany's industrial producer prices had decreased by 2.5 percent year on year.
In December, prices in the energy sector decreased by 6.8 percent, while prices of non-durable consumer goods rose by 0.2 percent and prices of intermediate goods fell by 2.2 percent, all year on year. Meanwhile, in the month in question, the prices of capital goods and durable consumer goods rose by 0.7 percent and 1.5 percent respectively, both compared to December 2014.