United States Consumer Price Index

Continuing its upward trend with high energy and food prices, annual inflation in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) area reached 4.3% in August.

The annual figure was up from 4.2% in July, the OECD said in a statement on Oct. 5. 

The National Statistical Institute reported here on Wednesday that inflation in August 2021 was 3.7 per cent compared to August 2020, and 0.8 per cent compared to July 2021.
The inflation rate since the beginning of the year (August 2021 compared to December 2020) was 3.1 per cent.

The government is working on a package as it has signaled an impending wave of price increases in basic consumer goods and electricity bills.

The annual rate of CPI inflation is expected to maintain its upward trend until the end of the year, when it will reach the level of 3.4 pct, and will fall to 2.8 pct at the end of 2022, the Report on Inflation of the National Bank of Romania (BNR) reads.

The annual inflation rate went up to 2.99% in January this year, from 2.1% in December, given that the prices for non-food items increased by 3.25%, of food items by 2.88% and of services by 2.51%, according to the data published on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS). "Consumer prices in January 2021, compared with December 2020, have gone up by 1.3%.

Cheap energy prices kept U.S. inflation flat in June in another sign price pressures remain weak in the world's largest economy, Labor Department figures showed on July 14.

The falling price of gasoline also helped hold down US retail sales, which contracted for the second straight month in June, the Commerce Department reported separately.

Bulgaria's consumer price index (CPI) in March 2017 compared to February 2017 is 99.5%, i.e. the monthly inflation is minus 0.5%, the press centre of the National Statistical Institute (NSI) announced.

Inflation since the start of the year (March 2017 compared to December 2016) is 0.8%, while the annual inflation for March 2017 compared to March 2016 is 1.9%.

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.

Except that it is not! It is true that according to official figures released by the Turkish Statistical Institute on July 3, prices fell 0.5 percent monthly in June, lower than expectations of a 0.2 percent fall. As a result, annual inflation fell almost one percentage point, from 8.1 to 7.2 percent.

The monthly inflation in May was -0.5% and the consumer price index for the same month was 99.5 %, according to Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute latest data.

The inflation rate since the beginning of the year (May 2014 compared to December 2013) has been -1.0% and the annual inflation in May 2014 compared to May 2013 was -2.0 %.