Summary
In March 2009, the year-on-year rate of change for the Industrial Production Prices was -5.1%, down 0.6 percentage points from previous month, mainly due to the refined pretroleum products group. Without this group the year-on-year rate stood at -1.5%. The monthly and the annual growth rates stood at 0.4% and 1.5%, respectively. Manufacturing Industry prices decreased 7.3% and 0.5% on year-on-year and monthly terms, respectivelly. The annual growth rate of this section stood at 0.6%, 1.2 percentage points lower than the observed on previous month.