• Work, Istat: + 46 thousand employed in October, + 217 thousand in the year

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November 29, 2019 Italian GDP grew by 0.1% in the third quarter of 2019 compared to the previous three months. Istat confirms this, also reiterating the estimate of an increase on an annual basis of 0.3%.

Istat: substantial stagnation for almost two years
In Italy the "phase of almost stagnant economic activity that has lasted just under two years" continues. The Istat writes commenting on the data on GDP in the third quarter of 2019. From the beginning of 2018, in fact, the Gross Domestic Product fluctuates around zero point, collecting consecutive increases of a tenth of a point, interrupted only by the technical recession between second and third quarter of last year.