Wholesale Prices Continue Upward Trend

BusinessEconomy ♦ Published: October 7, 2011; 15:19 ♦ (Vindobona)

Wholesale price index in September 2011: +6.4% against September 2010, +0.6% against August 2011. Main drivers were coffee and oil products.

Wholesale Prices Continue Upward Trend / Picture: © Vindobona.org

As reported by Statistics Austria the index of wholesale prices, WPI 2010, amounted to 108.1 (preliminary value) in September 2011 and has increased by 0.6% against August 2011. Compared to September 2010 the wholesale prices rose by 6.4%, after 6.9% in August 2011.

Against August, the groups “other mineral oil products” (+4.0%), “gasoline and diesel” (+3.4%), “sugar,…