Manufacturing prices increased 1.5% on the month in August, while prices in the mining and energy industries advanced 0.8% and 0.4%, respectively. Utility prices inched up 0.2% from a month earlier.
In annual terms, industrial prices rose 7.2% in August, again boosted by higher prices in all sectors, the data showed.
Prices in the utilities sector increased 20.5% in August from the year-earlier month, while manufacturing and mining prices rose by 7.5% and 5.1% on the year, respectively. Energy prices went up 4.8% on the year in August.