Ten out of 11 groups of commodities and services with higher CPI than the previous month include two groups with higher than average increase, namely food and eating & drinking services (up 1.67%), in which, food increases by 2.06%; and eating-out by 1.14%.
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| The CPI in July keeps falling
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Price rise speed in the first seven months represents 13.5%. The speed year over year hits 19%.
14,62% . Average CPI in July 2011 in comparison with that in July 2010 rises by 14.62% (price inflation index). Ten out of 11 CPI groups get increased, in which three groups with highest rates include food and eating & drinking services with 23% increase (food, cereal, and eating-out respectively gets 24.9%, 23.7% and 17,5% increase); group of housing, water & electricity, fuel and instruction materials with 17.8% rise and communication 12.2%. Education services have lowest increase of 2.98%.
Among service industries, post and telecommunications group declines slightly since firms constantly offer promotion and discounts.
L.H (Thanh Minh)