{"id":428594,"date":"2026-03-17T14:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/switzerland-february-producer-and-import-prices-0-3-vs-0-2-m-m-prior\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:41:41","slug":"switzerland-february-producer-and-import-prices-0-3-vs-0-2-m-m-prior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/switzerland-february-producer-and-import-prices-0-3-vs-0-2-m-m-prior\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland February producer and import prices -0.3% vs -0.2% m\/m prior"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior -0.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The breakdown shows that producer prices in Switzerland fell by 0.5% on the month in February with import prices increasing slightly by 0.2%. At the balance, this still points to a 0.3% monthly drop. On an annual basis, producer and import prices are seen down 2.7% relative to the same month a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Looking at the breakdown, the main drag in producer prices last month were for pharmaceutical products and for chemical products. That is slightly offset by a bit of an increase in prices for petroleum products and electricity. Of note, the core inflation reading for this index is seen down 0.5% on the month and down 1.8% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">As for import prices, the increase was a result of price jumps in petroleum products as well as petroleum and natural gas mostly. The core inflation reading for this index also shows a slight drop of 0.1% with the year-on-year estimate being down 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Overall, the core inflation reading* for the producer and index price is down 0.4% on the month in February and down 2.1% compared to the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">That points to negative contributions, which won&#8217;t be welcome by the SNB as they continue to have to deal with deflationary pressures alongside a stronger currency in recent weeks amid the US-Iran conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">*excluding raw materials and any product groups close to raw materials whose prices are subject to high volatility (in particular agricultural<br \/>\n products, meat, petroleum products, metals, gas<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior -0.2% The breakdown shows that producer prices in Switzerland fell by 0.5% on the month in February with import prices increasing slightly by 0.2%. At the balance, this still points to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}