NEWS RELEASE PRICES 29 JUNE 2009

The producer price index (PPI) in May 2009 was 168.0 points (4th quarter 2005=100), 2.4% higher than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products was 216.1 points which is 3.7% higher than in April 2009 (effect on the index 1.2%) and the PPI for power intensive industry products was 164.8 points, 5.0% higher (1.6%). The PPI for food products was 0.2% higher than in April and the PPI for other manufactured products decreased by 1.9% (-0.4%).

The PPI for domestically sold products was 0.5% lower (-0.2%) than in the previous month while the index for exported products increased by 3.7% (2.5%).

From May 2008 the PPI has increased by 13.9%. The PPI for fish products has increased by 33.9% and the PPI for power intensive industry products has decreased by 12.6%. In the same period the PPI for food products rose by 13.4%.

Monthly changes (%)
Power 
intensive
Marine industry Food  Domestic Exported
  PPI products  products production sales products
2008
May 1.1 -0.4 0.4 1.4 2.5 0.4
June 3.7 7.4 3.4 0.2 0.4 5.6
July 2.4 -0.3 1.9 0.4 3.1 2.0
August 1.9 0.2 7.8 0.6 0.3 2.8
September 3.9 8.6 1.4 1.5 1.2 5.4
October 12.7 20.3 14.7 3.4 3.1 17.8
November 5.4 9.9 2.2 3.7 2.7 6.8
December -7.1 -6.4 -18.5 2.8 2.1 -11.7
2009
January -7.3 -5.4 -17.0 0.2 0.1 -11.0
February -8.3 -14.1 -12.7 -0.3 2.3 -13.3
March -1.6 -1.0 -5.2 -0.2 0.2 -2.4
April 7.2 11.4 10.2 0.3 -0.2 10.7
May 2.4 3.7 5.0 0.2 -0.5 3.7

Annual changes (%)
Power 
intensive
Marine industry Food  Domestic Exported
  PPI products  products production sales products
2008
May 24.7 33.4 29.9 13.7 12.5 31.7
June 29.5 44.7 36.1 14.1 12.0 40.1
July 35.7 44.3 48.3 14.4 16.8 47.4
August 31.9 36.7 46.4 15.2 16.3 41.1
September 39.6 47.3 62.0 15.9 17.8 53.1
October 61.4 80.4 101.5 19.2 21.5 87.9
November 68.5 93.1 101.2 22.4 26.3 96.1
December 53.2 77.3 56.8 25.7 28.3 67.8
2009
January 39.2 62.7 31.1 24.3 24.8 47.2
February 23.8 35.5 8.0 23.2 25.9 22.6
March 11.6 19.2 -15.3 21.7 27.3 3.9
April 12.5 28.6 -16.5 14.8 19.1 8.4
May 13.9 33.9 -12.6 13.4 15.7 12.0

In evaluating the price changes accounted for here, it may be taken into consideration that the trade-weighted average price of foreign exchange in May 2009 was 2.9% higher than in the preceding month whereas it was 47.5% higher than in May 2008.

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Further Information

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