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Swiss Producer and Import Prices Index February 2016: 0.6 percent MoM, 4.6 percent YoY

Producer and Import Price Index in February 2016

0.6% decline in Producer and Import Price Index

Neuchâtel, 17.03.2016 (FSO) – The Producer and Import Price Index fell in February 2016 by 0.6% compared with the previous month, reaching 99.0 points (base December 2015 = 100). Whereas the Producer Price Index declined by 0.5%, the Import Price Index fell by 1.0%. The decline is due mainly to lower prices for chemical and pharmaceutical products as well as petroleum products. Compared with February 2015, the price level of the whole range of domestic and imported products fell by 4.6%. These are the findings of the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).

Download this press release  (pdf, 130 KB)  (exists only in German, French or Italian)

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Important data

The press release from the statistics office is really crap, while the data is certainly important.

It is important for two reasons:
The producer and import price index is used to revalue the real effective exchange rate.
It is the second release that shows y/y data for end of the EUR/CHF peg. This data serves to recalculate the CHF “overvaluation” based on producer prices.

 

Total

The key data is here the french version (easier readable for English speakers).

Total down 4.6% y/y
Producer Prices (origin Switzerland)  down 3.5% y/y
Import Prices down 6.9% y/y

Prices for export are down 4.4%, while when goods are sold in Switzerland, then they fell only by 2.5%

 

Producer Prices Total

 

 

Producer Prices

  • Total (100% of producer price basket) down by 3.5% y/y
  • Major categories
    • Prices of chemicals and pharmaceuticals (25.6% of the producer basket) are down 6.3% y/y. Especially the former profit on falling oil prices.
    • Prices of IT and eclectronics (15.4% of basket) fell by 2% compared to one year ago.
    • Prices of food (10.6% of basket) are down 0.7%
    • Machines (10.2% of basket) are cheaper by 3.6%.

Import Prices

  • Total (100% of import price basket) down by 6.9% y/y
  • Major categories
    • Prices of chemicals and pharmaceuticals  (25.6% of the import basket) down 5.6% y/y.
    • Prices of automobiles (10.2% of basket) are lower by 6.1% compared to one year ago.
    • IT and electionics (9.6% of basket) are cheaper by 6.3% y/y.
    • Food (7.2% of the basket) are cheaper by 6.5%.
    • Prices of Petroleum products  (4.3%) fell by 26.6%.

 

 

 

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