Summary
In March 2009, the year-on-year rate of change for the Industrial Production Prices Index was -4.0%, lower by 1.2 percentage points when compared with the previous month, mainly due to prices reduction in the group of petroliferous products. The monthly and the annual growth rates stood at -0.3% and 3.3%, respectively. The index of Manufacturing Industry decreased 6.1% in year-on-year terms and registered a monthly change of
-0.4%. Its annual change stood at 2.9%, 1.1 percentage points lower than the observed in previous month.