Tag: Consumer Price Index

• Tuesday, July 6th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Uruguay's yearly inflation set at 7.33% after Monday's figures

  

  Uruguay's yearly Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 7.33% as per data released Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), slightly above the government's target.

• Thursday, May 6th 2021 - 09:33 UTC

  Uruguay's inflation projected at 6.8% year on year fits within government’s target

  

  Uruguay has managed to keep inflation at 6.8%, which is within the government's target range for the first time in 36 months, it was announced Wednesday.

• Friday, February 12th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  January inflation in Argentina, 4%, questioning government 2021 targets

  

  Argentina's Consumer Price Index, CPI rose in January for the second month running 4%, questioning the government's target of 30% inflation in 2021. In effect twelve-month inflation reached 38,5% in January, following on the 4% for December, according to the latest release from the country's stats office, Indec.

• Saturday, June 13th 2020 - 07:16 UTC

  Argentina: May inflation 1,5% and 43,4% in the twelve months

  

  Argentina's 12-month inflation slowed in May as many consumers stayed home while shops and other businesses mostly remained closed because of social distancing measures intended to control the spread of the coronavirus.

• Monday, January 14th 2019 - 09:31 UTC

  Argentina's annual inflation during 2018 estimated at 48%, highest since 1991

  

  Argentina's stats office Indec, is scheduled to announce December's inflation and for the whole of a very volatile 2018 next Tuesday, with estimates ranging at 48%, the highest in the country since 1991. November's Consumer Price Index was 3.2%.

• Thursday, December 13th 2018 - 08:49 UTC

  US consumer prices in November unchanged, with sharp decline for gasoline

  

  The United States consumer prices were unchanged in November, held back by a sharp decline in the price of gasoline, but underlying inflation pressures remained firm amid rising rents and healthcare costs. The strength in underlying inflation reported by the Labor Department on Wednesday supports views that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its Dec. 18-19 policy meeting. The U.S. central bank has hiked rates three times this year.

• Saturday, September 8th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

  Brazil's August inflation drops 0.09%, the lowest rate in twenty years

  

  Brazil's inflation eased more-than-expected in August as prices fell from the previous month, preliminary data from the statistical office IBGE showed Thursday. The consumer price index, IPCA, rose 4.19% year-on-year following a 4.48% in July. Economists had forecast a 4.29% inflation rate.

• Saturday, November 5th 2016 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentina's 2017 inflation expected to reach 19.7%, reveals Central bank poll

  

  Argentina's consumer prices will rise by 19.7% in 2017, according to a central bank poll of 56 economists published this week, a slight drop from median expectations in last month's survey but still higher than the central bank's target.

• Thursday, July 16th 2015 - 08:05 UTC

  Argentina's June official Indec inflation, 1% and 15% in twelve months

  

  Argentina's 'official' inflation during June was 1% over the previous month according to the National Statistics and Census Institute, Indec, while prices during the current calendar year prices have reached 6.7% and 15% over the last twelve months.

• Wednesday, July 15th 2015 - 07:25 UTC

  Argentina's congressional index reports 1.52% inflation in June, and 27.9% in twelve months

  

  Inflation in Argentina clocked 1.53% in June accumulating 27.9% in the last twelve months according to the report released on Tuesday by members of the Congressional opposition based on an average from private consultants. This week Argentina's government stats office, Indec in scheduled to announce the official rate.