Summary
In April 2009, the year-on-year rate of change for the Industrial Production Prices was -4.5%, down 0.5 percentage points when compared with the previous month, mainly due to the petroliferous products group. Without this group the year-on-year rate was -0.9%. The monthly and the annual growth rates stood at -0.1% and 2.4%, respectively. Manufacturing Industry prices decreased 6.6% and 0.1% in year-on-year and monthly terms, respectivelly. The annual growth rate of this section stood at 1.8%, 1.0 percentage points lower than the observed in previous month.