With a note, Istat released the estimates of industry turnover in June, net of seasonal factors. An economic increase of 3.1% was recorded, resulting from growth in both markets (+ 4.7% in the foreign market and + 2.1% in the domestic one). In the second quarter the overall index shows an increase of 5.2% compared to the previous three months (+ 5.5% on the domestic market and + 4.8% on the foreign market).
With regard to the main groupings of industries, in June the seasonally adjusted turnover indices show cyclical increases for all the main sectors: energy (+ 6.0%), intermediate goods (+ 5.0%), consumption (+ 2.6%), capital goods (+ 0.3%).
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Adjusted for calendar effects, the working days were 21 as in June 2020, the total turnover grows in trend terms by 28.4% (+ 30.2% on the foreign market and + 27.5% on the domestic market).
As regards the indexes corrected for calendar effects referring to the main groupings of industries, there are marked trend increases for all sectors: + 54.3% energy, + 35.4% intermediate goods, +31.0 % capital goods and + 14.1% consumer goods with +26.4 non-durable goods and +11.6 durable goods. With reference to the manufacturing sector, there are trend increases for all sectors of economic activity, with the exception of the pharmaceutical industry with an almost zero change (-0.1%).