The 11% increase in electricity and lighting prices and 7% in metals and their derivatives, explained part of the year-on-year increase of 5% registered in January 2018.
From a statement issued by the Central Bank of Nicaragua:
In October of this year, the CPI registered a monthly variation of 0.55%, mainly explained by the prices of food, non-alcoholic beverages and water, electricity, gas and other fuels.
In July, there was a monthly variation of 0.39%, mainly explained by the behavior of food and non-alcoholic beverages, and also Restaurants and hotels.
In June, there was a monthly variation of 0.05%, mainly explained by the behavior of prices for water, electricity and gas, health, restaurants and hotels.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a monthly variation of 0.13 percent (0.57% in May 2016), mainly explained by the behavior of prices in some goods and services in Health (1.58%), Restaurants and Hotels (0.64%) and miscellaneous goods and services (0.69%), which together contributed 0.197 percentage points to the variation observed.In contrast, the Food and non-alcoholic beverages division showed a variation of -0.28 percent (-0.098pp).[GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with graphics"]
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a monthly variation of 0.32 percent (0.14% in April 2016), mainly explained by the behavior of prices in some of the goods and services in Transportation (2.00%), Food and Non-alcoholic beverages (0.17%) and Recreation and culture (1.21%), which together contributed 0.253 percentage points to the variation observed.In contrast, in the division of Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels there was a variation of -0.76 percent (-0.068pp).[GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with graphics"]