According to Istat, Italy's national statistics office, in December 2011 industrial production sales prices in Italy increased by 0.1 percent compared to November and were up by 3.8 percent year on year.
In December, the prices of industrial products sold in the local market were up 0.1 percent month on month and rose by four percent year on year, while the price index of products sold in foreign markets increased by 0.1 percent compared to November (+0.3 percent in the euro area and -0.1 percent outside the euro area) and rose by 2.9 percent year on year (+2.8 percent in the euro area and + 3.0 percent outside the euro area).
The coke and oil sector showed the steepest year-on-year increase in industrial production prices in Italy in December, with local and foreign sale prices rising respectively by 15.7 percent and 18.5 percent year on year.