According to the official figures, industrial production across the 19-country Euro zone slipped by 1.1% in July, showing a development that could seriously weigh on the region's third-quarter growth. It is worth to point out that industrial production in the single currency region has been highly volatile for the last months, jumping in some and slumping in others. But overall, during the last 12 months it has declined, a key source of weakness for the UK economy that has struggled to create jobs and now are facing strong uncertainties after the UK's June vote to leave the European Union. In the meantime, the production of capital goods decreased by 1.7%, while energy production was 1.4% lower and durable consumer goods production lost 0.7%. The production of intermediate goods, in turn, was down 0.5% while production of non-durable consumer goods was unchanged.
On the annual pace, industrial production in the Euro bloc was 0.5% lower, which was ahead of analysts' expectations of a 0.7% drop. In the EU-28 group of countries, industrial production went down 1% on the month and 0.1% on the yearly period.
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