Rebction of inflation. According to preliminary estimates, in March 2025 the national consumer price index for the entire community (NIC), gross of tobacco, increases by 0.4% on a monthly basis and 2.0% on March 2024, from +1.6% of February. This is what Istat spreads “this evolution is mainly affected by the trend of the most volatile components of the index. In fact, the prices of energy goods (+3.2%, from+0.6%), driven by the unregulated component (+1.3%, by -1.9%), and those of unwerming food (+3.3%, from+2.9%) are in fact acceleration.
“The dynamics of the general index – says Istat – mainly reflects the ascent of the rate of tendential variation of the prices of unregulated energy, returned positive (from -1.9% to +1.3%) and, to a lesser extent, the acceleration of tobacconist’s prices (from +4.1% to +4.6%) and non -processed foods (from +2.9% to +3.3%). Inflation support is also due to the services relating to communications (from +0.5% to +0.8%), to recreational, cultural and personal care services (from +3.1% to +3.3%) and finally to durable goods (whose flexion eased from -1.5% to -1.2%).
On the other hand, the prices of regulated energy (from +31.4% to +27.3%) and those of the transport services (from +1.9% to +1.6%) have died. The economic increase of the general index is mainly due to the prices of non -regulated energy and transport services (+1.2% both), tobacco and recreational, cultural and personal care services (+0.5% both) and of communications services (+0.3%); The effects of these increases were only partially compensated by the decrease in the prices of regulated energy (-2.4%) and non-processed powers (-0.4%). The tendential growth in the prices of goods is accentuated significantly (from +1.1%to +1.7%), while that of the services remains stable (to +2.4%). The inflationary differential between the service sector and that of the goods is reduced, leading to +0.7 percentage points against +1.3 of February 2025.