WIESBADEN, Germany, June 26 - The Federal Statistics Office reported on Tuesday the following economic indicator:
GERMAN IMPORT PRICES (Pct change)
____________ May 01 Apr 01 May 00
Month-on-month +1.0 +0.5 +2.0
Year-on-year +4.0 +5.1 +11.7
Index (base 100 1995) 115.0 113.9 110.6
NOTE- The Statistics Office said that excluding oil, import prices were up 0.2 percent month-on-month and up 3.4 percent year-on-year. This compares with zero change month-on-month in April, and a year-on-year rise of 4.2 percent. The year-on-year headline rate was below the 4.8 percent consensus forecast of economists polled by . But the month-on-month rate was higher than the prediction of 0.5 percent.