Consumer prices have slight drop in the last week of August
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Index Weekly Consumer Price Index (CPI-S), calculated by the Brazilian Institute of Economics (Ibre) Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) was 0.20% at the end of August, that change represents a reduction of 0.01 percentage point compared with the third prior month. This result was the lowest since the fourth week of June, during which the IPC-S had reached 0.12%.
In the period, the only group that increased the rate of increase was food, which closed at 0.40%, influenced by the prices of vegetables, which rose 3.35%. But the main contribution to the result was the housing group, which had a decrease of 0.10 percentage point to 0.34%.
Three groups had negative rates and among the most significant drop occurred in clothing (-0.98%). In education, reading and recreation, the rate increased from -0.04% to -0.01%, indicating upward trend in prices. In this case, the rate was down by books in general were lower by 0.56% to -0.23%.
The same was observed in miscellaneous with deflation of 0.02%, driven by the increase in the monthly service subscription TV (0.95%). Were also reported positive results, however, below the previous research groups health and personal care (0.03% against 0.10%) and transport (0.21% versus 0.31%).
Source: Agência Brazil
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