Italy Current account balance as  % of GDP 2001  +1.7 2002  +0.5 2003  - 0.5 2004  - 0.8 2005  +1.4 2007  -2.4 2008  -3.0

Italy Mibtel Weeekly		Notes & Links
Italy Mobtel Monthly

Italy Mibtel Index (weekly), 20 week exponential average in green, 5 week exponential average in red, 52 week ROC (rate of change) in yellow, MACD (moving average convergence divergence) in green.
Italy Mibtel Index monthly chart, the red line is a 24 month exaverage, the yellow line is a 6 month exaverage.
Italy Notes & Links:
10/14/08 Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Holland and Austria have joined forces to launch the greatest bank bail-out in history, offering over 1.5 trillion in guarantees and fresh capital in a "shock and awe" blitz to halt the credit panic. 8/8/08 GDP in Italy fell 0.3%. 12/12/06 Italian Industrial Production MoM at 0.6% vs. 0.5% expected. 10/13/05 Italian industrial production in August rose 1.3% -- three times more than forecast by economists. 09/20/05 Italy's unemployment rate dropped from 7.8% to 7.7% in the second quarter, the lowest in over a decade. 07/22/05 The Italian economy will shrink marginally this year for the first time since 1993 and expand by slightly more than 1 percent in 2006, Bank of Italy Governor Antonio Fazio said on Friday. 05/12/05 Italy's GDP contracted 0.5% in the first quarter of 2005, weaker than expected. 12/28/04 An index of business confidence in Italy dropped from 90.1 to 88.9 in December, weaker than expected and the lowest in nine months.