In June, the city’s CPI increased 0.2 percent from the previous month, and 1.98percent year-on-year.
Seven out of 11 commodity groups posted increasing prices in the January-Juneperiod, with transport costs experiencing the highest increase of 5.21 percent aspetrol prices rose over the period.
It was followed by the group of education, and housing, electricity, water,fuel, and building materials, with respective increases of 2.71 percent and2.58 percent.
The groups of culture, entertainment, and tourism services; postal services and telecommunications; and restaurantand catering services reported declines of 2.71 percent, 1.09 percent and 0.28percent, respectively.
The price for gold climbed by 17.2 percent, while the price of US dollardecreased by 0.98 percent in the first six months./.
VNA