Press Wholesale prices in May 2016: –2.3% on May 2015

Press release No. 198 of 10 June 2016

WIESBADEN – As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the selling prices in wholesale trade decreased by 2.3% in May 2016 from the corresponding month of the preceding year. In April and in March 2016 the annual rates of change were –2.7% and –2.6%, respectively.
From April 2016 to May 2016 the index rose by 0.9%.

Basic data and long time series are available in table Index of wholesale prices (61281-0002) in the GENESIS-Online database.

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