(Reuters) – Italian retail sales rose 1.7% in January from the month before, data showed on Wednesday, following a 0.2% fall in December.
Sales rose 6.2% in unadjusted year-on-year terms in January, ISTAT said.
The data are expressed in value terms and are not adjusted for consumer prices, which increased 10.7% in January from the year earlier, based on Italy’s EU-harmonised index (HICP).
ISTAT gave the following data:
JAN DEC NOV
Mth/Mth change* +1.7 -0.2 +0.9r
Yr/yr change** +6.2 +3.6r +4.4
Food sales (m/m) +2.2 +0.1 +0.7r
Non-food sales (m/m) +1.4 -0.5r +1.0r
*seasonally adjusted
**unadjusted
r=revised
(Reporting by Alessandro Parodi; editing by Antonella Cinelli)
