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The inflation rate was zero in June, meaning consumers paid the same as they did a year earlier for a basket of goods and services. It was the second monthly Consumer Price Index report this year to show a zero inflation rate, after April, the month ...

The rate of inflation fell to 0.3 per cent in March, its lowest level since May last year. In March, the inflation rate was 0.6 of a percentage point lower than it had been in February. Between February and March, the average cost of goods and servic...

Consumers paid 0.9 per cent more in February 2020 than they did a year previously for the basket of goods and services included in the Consumer Price Index. The level of inflation decreased 0.1 of a percentage point from January 2020. Between Januar...

Inflation averaged 1 per cent last year — the lowest annual average rate in the increase in the cost of living in more than a decade. The revelation came in the Consumer Price Index, released by the Department of Statistics today, which showed that t...

Rising costs for health insurance and food were two of the main drivers of inflation in October. Consumers paid 0.7 per cent more in October 2019 than they did a year ago for the basket of goods and services included in the Consumer Price Index, the ...

The rate of inflation climbed to 1.5 per cent in August. That is 0.3 percentage points higher than in July. The all-items index was 106.5 in August, which means a basket of goods and services that cost $100 in April 2015, now costs $106.50. Year-on-y...

Consumers paid more for goods and services in June than they did in the same month in 2018. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.7 per cent, year-on-year. The inflation rate year-on-year more than doubled during the month, rising by 0.4 of a percentage po...

Consumers paid more for goods and services in April, than they did in the same month in 2018. The Consumer Price Index rose 1 per cent, year-on-year. The rate of inflation declined 0.2 percentage points from the 1.2 per cent measured in March. Betwee...

Consumers paid more for goods and services in March than they did in the same month in 2018. The Consumer Price Index rose 1.2 per cent, year-on-year. The level of inflation increased by 0.1 of a percentage point from the 1.1 per cent measured in Feb...

The annual rate of inflation fell to 0.8 per cent in November last year — the lowest rate of increase in the cost of living recorded since June 2016. The Consumer Price Index, which measures price movements through a basket of goods and services, fou...

The annual rate of inflation eased off to 1.4 per cent in July — the lowest rate since October last year. The largest driver of the increase in the cost of living was health and personal care, which saw price increases of 4.1 per cent from 12 months ...

Inflation edged down 0.1 of a percentage point to 1.6 per cent in June. The all-items index was 105, which means a basket of goods that cost $100 in April 2015 now costs $105. According to the Consumer Price Index report for June, released by the Dep...