Italian Industrial Output Rises Most in Seven Months

Italian industrial production rose the most in seven months in August as gains in exports more than offset weak domestic demand.

Output climbed 1.6 percent from July, when it increased a revised 0.3 percent, Rome-based statistics office Istat said today. Economists had forecast a 0.1 percent gain in August, according to the median of 20 estimates in a Bloomberg survey. Output jumped 9.5 percent from a year earlier.