In September, the Consumer Price Index reported a 2.5% year-on-year variation, down from 2.9% in August.
Of the 315 goods and services that make up the consumption basket, 50% increase in price, 39% decreased in price and 11% showed no variation, reported the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses.
The official report explains that "... During September, the goods and services showing the greatest negative effect are: gasoline, potato and tomato. On the other hand, automobiles, canned tuna and papaya were among the main ones with the greatest positive effect.
After the July Consumer Price Index reported a 6.1% year-on-year variation, in August the increase was 6.3%.
In cumulative terms, national inflation stood at 4.03% (1.66% in August 2018), induced by the behavior of prices in the divisions of Alcoholic beverages and tobacco (42.89%), Several goods and services (9.87%), and Food and non-alcoholic beverages (2.81%), with a joint contribution of 2.13%, reported the Central Bank of Nicaragua.
In July the Consumer Price Index in El Salvador reported a monthly variation of -0.26%, explained partially by declines in the prices of Food and non-alcoholic beverages.
From the General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses report:
The General Index of Consumer Prices in July 2019 was 112.56, registering a 0.26% decrease, such variation is 0.12 percentage points lower with respect to the previous month.
Between January and July 2019, accumulated inflation of 1.64% is reported, which is partly explained by the positive variation in the prices of Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages.
The consumer price index (CPI) registered a 0.47% variation in July with respect to June 2019, placing the accumulated inflation of the January-July 2019 period at 1.64%. With this result, annualized inflation measured from July 2018 to July 2019 stood at 1.40%, reported the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD).
Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages was the expenditure item that most contributed to the 4.7% year-on-year variation reported during the seventh month of the year.
From the Central Bank of Honduras report:
In July 2019, the monthly variation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 0.27%, lower than the observed twelve months ago (0.38%); the monthly result is mainly due to the increase in the prices of some foods, personal care items and medicines.
During July in Costa Rica, the Consumer Price Index reported a 2.9% year-on-year variation, a rise that is partly explained by the behavior of food and non-alcoholic beverage prices.
Of the 315 goods and services that make up the consumption basket, 61% increased in price, 35% decreased in price and 4% showed no variation, reported the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses.
Between June and July of this year, the inflationary rhythm in Guatemala decreased from 4.8% to 4.4%, mainly because of the variations in the prices of alcoholic beverages and food.
The most important inflation levels in July 2019 are as follows: -0.06% monthly inflation, 4.37% inflationary rhythm and 3.11% accumulated inflation, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE).
After the year-on-year variation of the CPI in May of this year was only 1.3%, in June the inflationary rhythm in the country became low again, in this case it was 0.9%.
The variation of the Consumer Price Index in June was -0.18% with respect to May, placing the accumulated inflation in the semester from January to June at 1.17%, informed the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic.
During June, the Consumer Price Index reported a 5.6% year-on-year variation, an inflationary rhythm that is lower than the 6% registered in May.
From the Central Bank of Nicaragua report:
The June Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a 0.09 percent monthly increase (0.44% in June 2018), mainly explained by the behavior of prices in some goods and services of the Food and non-alcoholic beverages divisions (0.63%); Restaurants and hotels (0.60%); and Diverse goods and services (0.74%); which together contributed 0.333 percentage points to the observed variation. On the other hand, the division of Recreation and culture showed a 4.37 percent decrease, for a negative contribution of 0.167 percentage points.
After registering a 4.5% year-on-year variation in the Consumer Price Index in May, in June the inflationary rhythm rose to 4.8%.
The most important inflation levels in June 2019 are as follows: 0.83% monthly inflation, 4.80% inflationary rhythm and 3.17% accumulated inflation, reported the National Statistics Institute.
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 recording a 4.8% year-on-year variation in the CPI in April, the inflation rate dropped to 4.5% in May.
Monthly inflation (0.26%), shows a slowdown compared to May of the previous year (0.47%), while the accumulated (2.33%), and year-on-year (4.54%), show an acceleration compared to the same month last year, according to the report of the National Statistics Institute.
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).