Information from the Statistics and Census Service showed that in the first quarter of 2007, price indices for most of the surveyed construction materials increased over the fourth quarter of 2006. Among them, the indices for steel, aluminium, sand, lime, aggregates, timber, red bricks, ceramic products, glass, pipes, sanitary articles and cement rose between 0.5% and 8.9%. Conversely, the price index for electric wires fell the most by 6.1%, ending the continuous upward trend in the past nine quarters; decreases were also registered in concrete and paint, down 1.0% and 0.5% respectively. Compared with the first quarter of 2006, price indices for all of the surveyed construction materials, except concrete, moved up. The index for electric wires rose the most by 54.1%, followed by aluminium and red bricks, up 14.6% and 13.9% respectively.
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