Ha Noi CPI declines 0.07% in May
VGP - May’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Ha Noi dropped 0.07% over the previous month, according to the city Statistics Office.
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In May, CPI decline due to fall in prices of food and foodstuff basket which takes the largest percentage point in CPI calculation. Restaurant and food services group saw a 0.57% CPI reduction over a month earlier, in which food CPI decreased 0.93% and foodstuff price declined 0.7% while eating-out price rose 0.02%.
Prices of garments and textiles, hat and footwear group increased 0.36%. Other groups seeing price hikes are equipment and housing devices (0.41%), beverage and cigarette (0.15%), medicine and health services (0.06%), education (0.01%), culture, leisure and tourism (0.03%) and other commodities and services (0.32%). Prices of post and telecommunication group remained unchanged.
Prices of traffic reported the highest price hike jumped by 0.53% because petroleum and diesel prices increased in mid-April and the Government’s direction on checking overloaded autos was applied.
Two commodities which are non-calculated in the common CPI basket, gold and US dollar saw different changes. Prices of gold lost 1.4% on month while price of the US dollar was kept stable.
By Vien Nhu
