PPI (Jul 2019)........................>

EUROZONE DATA: PPI (Jul 2019)

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--EZ PPI rose 0.2% m/m after four months of consecutive decline.

-- That left the y/y rate at just 0.2% - its lowest since Nov 2016.

-- Month/month energy prices (1.0%) reached a 9-month high, after Jun's sharp

drop (2.2%).

-- While monthly prices for durable and non-durable consumer goods were flat,

prices for capital goods rose (0.1%) and fell for intermediate goods (-0.3%).

-- On an annual basis, energy prices (-1.7%) saw the largest drop, while capital

(1.5%), durable (1.4%) and non-durable consumer (1.0%) goods were stable. 

-- Across the member states, the sharpest monthly PPI declines were registered

in Belgium (-1.0%), the Netherlands (-0.4%) and Latvia (-0.3%), while Cyprus

(+1.7%), Finland (1.4%) and Greece (1.2%) saw the biggest increases. 

--Annual PPI inflation recorded the sharpest falls in Portugal (-1.3%), Spain

and Italy (both -0.8%), while the largest increases were seen in Latvia (+4.0%),

Cyprus (+2.8%) and Slovakia (+2.2%).