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Tuesday, 19 July 2016

Nourishment, Energy Prices, Imported Items Push Inflation Further to 16.5%

                                    

The Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures expansion, ascended by 0.9 percent to 16.5 for every penny in June contrasted with 15.6 percent in May, as indicated by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
This is the fifth successive month that the feature file would increment moderately solid.


The expansion in the month under audit was credited to vitality costs, imported things and related items which kept on being constant drivers of the center sub-file.

As indicated by the CPI figures for June, which was discharged on Monday by the factual office, the most astounding cost increments were seen in the power, fluid fuel (lamp oil), furniture and decorations, traveler transport by street, and energizes and oils for individual transport gear.

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