The index of Italian industrial production shows alternating signs in the month of october: the seasonally adjusted index shows a decrease of 0.6% with respect to september, while the comparison with the same month of the last year remains positive (+2%), without considering the calendar effect. The production od rubber and plastic material closes the month with all positive markers: +06% with respect to september 2021, +4,7% on 0ctober 2020 and +21,5% in the first ten months of the year  2021 with respect to the same period of the last year that, we remind, has been negatively influenced by the pandemic and the lockdown.

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