Tag: consumer inflation

• Monday, January 25th 2016 - 10:01 UTC

  IMF estimates 2016 Venezuela inflation at 720% and 8% economy contraction

  

  Venezuela’s consumer inflation, already the world’s highest, will more than double this year surging to 720% in 2016 from 275% last year, according to a note published by the IMF’s Western Hemisphere Director, Alejandro Werner.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2011 - 15:09 UTC

  China hikes bank reserves to contain inflation; food costs up 11.7% in May

  

  China's central bank raised bank reserve ratios on Tuesday for the ninth time since October to try to curb inflation, which is running at its fastest pace in almost three years.