Price indices

Greece's headline consumer price index fell 0.9 percent year-on-year in August, with the annual pace of deflation picking up from -1.0 percent in July, statistics service data showed on Friday.

This was the 42nd consecutive month of CPI decline. Consumer prices were led higher by alcoholic beverages, tobacco, durable goods, transportation, hotels and restaurants.

Turkey's inflation rate slowed down more than forecast in February as increases in food prices lost pace, according to Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜ?K) data released on March 3. 

While the average January increases in consumer prices is around 1 percent, the increase this January reached 1.82 percent, which was quite a surprise. When the monthly rate reached 1.82 percent, then the annual inflation, which stood at 8.81 percent in December 2015, jumped to 9.58 percent at the end of January.

Inflation numbers of the new year's first month will be announced today.

There is curiosity about whether the rise in the consumer price index, which is now bordering 9 percent, will reach double digits.

Even if it does not reach 10 percent, many believe it will come close.

Bulgaria on Monday reported negative monthly consumer price inflation of -0.1% for November.

The inflation rate for the first 11 months of 2015 was negative at -0.4%, the statistics office NSI said in a monthly inflation report.

Annual inflation (November 2015 vs November 2014) was also negative, measuring minus 0.4%.

Annual inflation has neared 8 percent again. The increase in September?s consumer price index (CPI) that was released at the beginning of the week was above market expectations, at 0.89 percent. At the end of September, the annual inflation was 7.95 percent. 

Bulgaria recorded zero inflation in August compared to the previous month, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on Monday.

Year-on-year, consumer price inflation also was zero, the statistical office said in a monthly inflation report.

The inflation rate since the beginning of the year (August 2015 compared to December 2014) was negative at minus 0.3%.

Inflation in Turkey dropped sharply in June with decreasing food prices, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜ?K) stated on July 3, but analysts doubt that a further decline is in store. 

The Consumer Price Index dropped 0.51 percent in June from May, bringing the annual inflation rate to 7.20 percent in June from 8.09 percent in May.

Turkey is more expensive than a few European countries but it remains cheaper than a majority of the continent, according to a new comparative purchasing power parity index released June 19 by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜ?K).

However, car prices stood above European levels, as did the prices of alcoholic beverages, tobacco and consumer electronics.

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) price index, which measures monthly changes for a basket of cereal, oilseed, dairy, meat and sugar, averaged 171 points in April, 1.2 percent below its reading in March.

High global production, a strong U.S. dollar and cheaper crude oil have helped cap food prices for the past year and the index has been declining since April 2014.