02:06, 25/06/2013

Slight increase in June CPI

Consumer Price Index (CPI) of the country in June has risen by 0.05% over that in May and by 6.69% year-on-year.

Consumer Price Index (CPI) of the country in June has risen by 0.05% over that in May and by 6.69% year-on-year.

Of 11 groups of commodities, there are three making a slight decrease in price, namely group of food, foodstuff and services, group of traffic and group of post – telecommunications.

Some groups with high increase in price are group of clothing, headwear and footwear (0.42%), group of culture – entertainment (0.4%), group of home appliances (0.33%), group of drinks and cigarrettees (0.32%) and group of medicine and medical services (0.09%).

Gold price has seen a drop of 4.11% while USD price has gone up by 0.26% over May.

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