consumer prices | The Malta Business Weekly https://maltabusinessweekly.com A New Voice for Business in Malta Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:57:34 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8 https://maltabusinessweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bw-favicon.svg consumer prices | The Malta Business Weekly https://maltabusinessweekly.com 32 32 159130352 Malta’s HICP growth remains 1.8% in July https://maltabusinessweekly.com/maltas-hicp-growth-remains-1-8-in-july/5312/ Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:45:08 +0000 https://maltabusinessweekly.com/?p=5312 Malta’s Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) growth remains constant at 1.8% in July. The twelve-month moving average rate for July stands at 1.7%.

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]]> Malta’s Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) growth remained constant at 1.8% in July, according to the latest figures published by the National Statistics Office (NSO). The twelve-month moving average rate for July stood at 1.7%.

The largest upward impact was measured in restaurants and hotels (0.57 pp), due to higher costs of restaurant services, while the largest downward impact was recorded in education (0.09 pp).

The highest annual inflation rates were recorded in food and non-alcoholic beverages (3.2%) and miscellaneous goods and services (2.8%).

The lowest annual inflation was registered in education (-4.6%) and clothing and footwear (-1.6%)

The full report with charts and data is available for download at the website of NSO.

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