Latest data released by Istat - 18 September 2018

  • Prior +3.6%
  • Industrial orders NSA +2.8% y/y
  • Prior +4.9%
  • Industrial sales -1.0% m/m
  • Prior +1.7%
  • Industrial sales WDA +2.9% y/y
  • Prior +5.00%

A bit of a dip in industrial activity to end Q2 but then again, it's Q2 data. The release here is very much a lagging data point and doesn't do much for the current Italian/Eurozone economic rhetoric.