Tag: Consumer Prices index

• Wednesday, February 16th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Inflation remains strong in Chile; Central bank expected to take reference rate to 8% next May

  

  A survey of financial operators in Chile anticipates that the aggressive policy of the country's central bank to combat rising prices will continue to hike interest rates, anticipating the basic rate from the bank's Monetary Policy office will be reaching 8% by next May.

• Saturday, September 11th 2021 - 04:55 UTC

  Inflation in Chile reached 3,2% in eight months and the US dollar 794 Pesos

  

  The Consumer Prices Index, CPI, in Chile climbed 0,4% during August totaling 3,2% so far this year and 4,8% in the last twelve months, according to the country's stats office. It is the highest since January 2016, and the tendency is to continue increasing, as had been anticipated by the Central Bank. Likewise with the US dollar.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2021 - 09:24 UTC

  Inflation-15 in Brazil reached a twelve-month 9,30% in August

  

  The anticipated inflation for the eighth month of the year in Brazil, which measures the second half of July and the first half of August, reached 0,89% according to the official stats office IBGE and is the highest since August 2002.

• Thursday, February 14th 2019 - 09:13 UTC

  UK January inflation at at two-year low and below target

  

  British annual inflation hit a two-year low point in January, undershooting the Bank of England’s 2.0 per cent target on falling oil and other energy costs, official data showed on Wednesday.

• Monday, January 2nd 2012 - 21:44 UTC

  Venezuelan economy expands 4% in 2010 and inflation reaches 27.6%

  

  Inflation in Venezuela during last year reached 27.6%, which is 0.7 percentage points more than in 2010, according to a preliminary report from Venezuela’s central bank. President Nelson Merentes said that the consumer prices index “was associated to the upwards pressure generated on wholesale prices by a greater dynamism from domestic aggregate demand”.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 06:05 UTC

  Brazil to cut ethanol content in gasoline to ease pressure on sugar market

  

  Brazil will reduce the ethanol content in gasoline in another effort to contain inflation since sugar (and ethanol) prices because of a poor crop have been soaring, according to the Sao Paulo press.