In a month-on-month comparison, industrial producer prices were up 0.1% as domestic prices rose 0.8% and export prices fell 0.3% from August to September.

Domestic output prices increased by 8.2% on average year-on-year in September, within which prices of manufacturing, representing a weight of six-tenths, rose by 7.8%, and prices of energy (electricity, gas, steam, and air conditioning supply), with a weight of over one-third, by 9.7% compared to a year earlier.

Of the end-use groups of the producing branches of industry, prices in Hungary increased by 11% in energy and intermediate producing, by 4.5% in capital goods producing, and by 1.4% in consumer goods producing branches.

Industrial export output prices rose by 6.0% compared to September 2017, within which prices were up by 5.2% in manufacturing (representing an overwhelming weight of 96.4%), and by 28% in the energy industry (with a weight of 3.4%), owing to branch-specific world market effects.

In January–September 2018, compared to the first three quarters of 2017, domestic output prices increased by 5.7% and export output prices by 5.4%, so that industrial producer prices as a whole were 5.5% higher year-on-year in the first nine months.

Industrial producer prices for October 2018 will be published on November 30.