Italian inflation stable at 0.8% in February - Istat. The national statistics agency said its consumer price index rose by 0.1% in month-on-month terms in February.

   Istat said core inflation had remained on a downward trend.    The index excluding energy and unprocessed food decelerated from+2.7% to +2.4% in Feb. and the index excluding onlyenergy goods went from +3.0% to plus 2.7%.