ROME (ITALPRESS) – In April, Istat estimates that the national consumer price index for the entire community (NIC), gross of tobacco, registers an increase of 0.4% on a monthly basis and of 1, 1% on an annual basis (from + 0.8% in March), confirming the preliminary estimate. The acceleration of inflation on an annual basis is essentially due to the prices of energy goods, whose growth passes from + 0.4% in March to + 9.8% due to both the prices of the regulated component (which reverse the trend from -2.2% to + 16.8%) and those of the non-regulated component (which accelerated from + 1.7% to + 6.6%); this trend is only partially offset by the reversal of the trend in the prices of unprocessed food goods (from + 1.0% to -0.3%) and those of transport services (from + 2.2% to – 0.7%). “Core inflation”, net of energy and fresh food, and that net of energy goods only, decelerated and both increased to + 0.3% (from + 0.8% in March). The cyclical increase in the general index is mainly due to the growth in the prices of regulated energy goods (+ 3.6%), recreational, cultural and personal care services (+ 1.4%), unregulated energy and unprocessed food (+ 1.0% for both), only partially offset by the decrease in the prices of transport services (-1.2%). “In April, it is the acceleration in the prices of energy goods that drives further growth in inflation. This acceleration is due, however, to a large extent, to the comparison with April 2020, when the prices of this type of due to the health emergency, they had suffered a marked decrease compared to the previous month – comments Istat -. Inflation net of energy therefore falls to + 0.3%, a value close to that of September 2020 (+0, 2%, but with a negative general inflation equal to -0.6%) and, at the same time, the prices of the so-called “shopping cart” widen their decline (-0.7%), reaching levels that they had not been registered since August 1997 (when they decreased by 0.8% on an annual basis) “. (ITALPRESS). sat / com 17-May-21 10:18
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