Swiss Consumer Price Index in February 2016: -0.8 percent against 2015, +0.2 percent against last month

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A quick wrap-up of the major components and their y/y change:

1) Goods (39%) are down 1.9% against the previous year. Of those energy driven products (3% of the basket) are down 10.3%.
2) Services (61%) are down 0.1% against the previous year. A major part of services are the rents (18%) with a rise of 0.2%. Rents have risen far less than real estate prices.

The producer price index remains in heavy contraction by 5.3% y/y against the previous year, mostly thanks to cheaper imported goods. However producers and importers do give all the gains back to the consumers. Consumer prices for goods fell by only 1.9% y/y.

Real retail sales were up 0.2% y/y, core retail sales (real)  +0.6% y/y.

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The Swiss Federal Statistics Office publishes information on the situation and developments in Switzerland in a multitude of fields and plays a part in enabling comparisons at an internal level.

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