According to the the BdP, "in September, the monthly coincident indicator for economic activity kept the downward trend started in October 2017," while "the monthly coincident indicator for private consumption "fell again compared with the previous month."

Thus, the monthly coincident indicator for economic activity declined to 1.8% from 1.9% in August, while the monthly coincident indicator for private consumption decreased to 1.4% in September, compared with 1.6% the previous month, the BdP said.

According to the BdP, "the coincident indicators are composite indicators that aim at capturing the underlying pattern of the year-on-year rate of change of the corresponding macroeconomic aggregate."