Out of the 315 goods and services that make up the consumption basket, 52% increased in price, 36% decreased in price and 12% showed no variation.
Of the 315 goods and services that make up the consumption basket, 52 % increased in price, 36 % decreased in price and 12 % showed no variation, informed the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC).
Between April and May of this year, the inflationary rhythm grew from 4.9% to 5.1%, mainly because of variations in the prices of fuels, some services and certain foods.
From the Central Bank of Honduras report:
The items with the highest contribution to monthly inflation were: "Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas and Other Fuels" with 0.09 percentage points (pp); followed by "Transport" and "Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages" with 0.08 pp, each and "Clothing and Footwear" with 0.04 pp (together contributing 80.6% to monthly inflation). Likewise, the groups "Personal Care" and "Furniture and Household Maintenance Items" each contributed less, with 0.02 pp, and "Health", "Recreation and Culture" and "Hotels, Cafeterias and Restaurants" with 0.01 pp, each.
After in January, February and March of this year the year-on-year variation of the CPI was only 0.7%, 1.2% and 1.5%, respectively, in April the inflationary rhythm in the country slightly increased to 1.6%.
The consumer price index (CPI) registered a variation of 0.53% in April with respect to March 2019, placing the accumulated inflation for April at 1.39%, informed the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD).
During the third month of the year, the CPI registered a 1.82% monthly variation, mainly because of the prices of alcoholic beverages and tobacco.
In cumulative terms, domestic inflation was 1.84%, year-on-year inflation was 5.09%, 0.25% higher than in March 2018, while base year-on-year inflation was 5.25% (4.20% in March 2018), reported the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN).
After in January and February of this year the year-on-year variation of the CPI was only 0.7% and 1.2%, respectively, in March the inflationary rhythm in the country increased slightly to 1.5%.
0.65% variation with respect to February, placing accumulated inflation at 0.86% at the end of the first quarter of the year, informed the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD).
After the country's Consumer Price Index rose to 3.3% in February 2019, it increased to 5.1% in March.
The March Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a monthly increase of 1.82% (0.14% in March 2018), mainly because of the rise in prices of some goods and services of the divisions: Alcoholic beverages and tobacco (31.37%), Miscellaneous goods and services (3.76%), and Food and non-alcoholic beverages (1.62%), which together contributed 1.176 percentage points to the observed variation, reported the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN).
For the second consecutive month, Transportation was the spending division that explained most of the rise in the Consumer Price Index, reported to March 2019.
The most important inflation levels of March 2019 are the following: monthly inflation of -0.04%, inflationary rhythm of 4.17% and accumulated inflation of 1.44%, informed the National Statistics Institute (INE).
Reported prices for electricity, fuel, some household items and clothing caused much of the monthly change in the CPI recorded in the third month of the year.
From the Central Bank of Honduras report:
In March 2019, the monthly growth of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 0.40%, mainly because of the increase in the prices of electricity supply, fuel, some household items and clothing.
In the third month of the year, the year-on-year variation of the Consumer Price Index was 1.4%, below the increases of 1.7% and 1.5% recorded in January and February 2019.
During March, the goods and services showing the greatest negative effect were: automobiles, airline tickets and eggs. On the other hand, beans, pizza and domestic service were among the main ones with the greatest positive effect, reported the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC).
Education and transportation services were the main spending divisions that during the second month of the year caused the variation of the Consumer Price Index in the country.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for February showed a 0.27 percent monthly increase (0.22% in February 2018), mainly because of the behavior of prices in some goods and services of the divisions of Education (3.86%), Transportation (1.35%), Furniture and household goods and their conservation (0.67%), which together contributed 0.388 percentage points to the observed variation, explains a report from the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN).
After the year-on-year variation of the CPI was barely 0.7% in January of this year, in February the inflationary rhythm in the country rose slightly to 1.2%.
The consumer price index (CPI) registered a 0.37% variation in February 2019, placing the accumulated inflation of the first two months of the year at 0.20%, informed the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD).
In the second month of the year, the year-on-year change in the Consumer Price Index was 1.5%, below the 2.2% increase recorded in February 2018.
During February, the goods and services with the greatest positive effect were: automobile, primary education and junior high school. On the other hand, gasoline, papaya and tomato were among the main with the greatest negative effect, reported the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC).
After the year-on-year variation of the CPI in December 2018 was barely 1.2%, in January of this year the inflationary rhythm in the country dropped to 0.7%.
From the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic report:
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) experienced a -0.17% variation in January 2019, locating the year-on-year inflation, measured from January 2018 to January 2019, at 0.71%.
During the first month of the year, the rise in the consumer price index was caused by the behavior of the Water and Electricity Supply and Rental Divisions.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) registered a 0.03% monthly variation in January 2019, the lowest observed in that month since 2016, informed the Central Bank of Honduras.
The consumer price index did not show any major changes in January, as it barely varied by 0.05% with respect to December, mainly because of the Transport and Education prices.
Of the 315 goods and services included in the consumption basket, 57% increased in price, 36% decreased in price and 7% showed no variation, informed the National Statistics and Census Institute.