Statistics: Industrial goods prices rise for third month in a row
The producer price index of industrial output, which expresses changes in the producer prices of industrial goods manufactured in Estonia for the domestic market and for exports, rose 2.3 percent on year to January, state agency Statistics Estonia says. The index also rose by 0.8 percent on the previous month, the agency says, which is the third row in a month they have risen, following a decline in the coronavirus-hit year of 2020. Eveli Šokman, leading analyst at Statistics Estonia, says the change mostly resulted from price increases in electricity and heat production, and in the manufact...