
Scheduled Maintenance
Scheduled maintenance will be performed on the server in the near future.
We apologize in advance if the site becomes temporarily unavailable.
According to the final data of the Statistical Office of the European Union, consumer prices in the eurozone increased by 9.1% in annual terms in August. This indicator has become the maximum since the beginning of the data calculation. Thus, inflation in the region accelerated from 8.9% in July and currently exceeds the target of the European Central Bank of 2% by 4.5 times. The final data coincided with the preliminary data, as well as with analysts' forecasts. According to Eurostat, energy resources jumped in price by 38.6% compared to August last year, but the growth rate slowed down compared to the rise by 39.6% a month earlier. Food, alcohol and tobacco increased in price by 10.6% (by 9.8% in July), industrial goods – by 5.1% (by 4.5% in July), services rose in price by 3.8% (by 3.7% in July). The CPI Core index (consumer prices excluding food and energy) increased by 4.3% year-on-year last month, compared with 4% in July. In the European Union, inflation accelerated to 10.1% in annual terms in August from July's 9.8%. The lowest inflation in the EU was recorded in France (6.6%), Malta (7%) and Finland (7.9%), the highest in Estonia (25.2%), Latvia (21.4%) and Lithuania (21.1%).
Scheduled maintenance will be performed on the server in the near future.
We apologize in advance if the site becomes temporarily unavailable.