Italy's GDP expands 0.5 pct in Q3: ISTAT

ROME, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- Italy's economic growth streak continued in the third quarter of this year, with the country registering 0.5 percent growth from the previous quarter, the government's main statistics entity reported Monday.

According to the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), it was the seventh three-month period in a row that Italy's economy expanded. This growth started in the first quarter of last year, as the country began to recover from the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic.