{"id":1621,"date":"2024-09-11T08:01:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T08:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2024-09-11T08:01:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T08:01:52","slug":"romanias-inflation-slows-to-5-1-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1621","title":{"rendered":"Romania\u2019s inflation slows to 5.1% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s annual inflation rate\u00a0eased to 5.1% in August 2024 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/inflation-romania-jumps-542-july-aug-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5.42% in July<\/a>, according to the official <a href=\"https:\/\/insse.ro\/cms\/sites\/default\/files\/com_presa\/com_pdf\/ipc08r24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> released by the statistics institute INS on Wednesday, September 11. However, the figure was still higher than the 4.9% reported for June.<\/p>\n<p>The inflation rate since the beginning of the year (August 2024 compared to December 2023) was 3.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Food prices increased by\u00a04.25% year-over-year in August 2024, while non-food goods got 4.35% more expensive, and services tariffs rose by roughly 8.6%, INS said.<\/p>\n<p>Among foods, the biggest year-over-year price increases were recorded for potatoes &#8211; 18.78% and vegetables and canned vegetables &#8211; 14.13%. The price of flour decreased the most, by 16.56%.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to non-food goods, detergents were the star of price increases with 16.95%, followed by chemical items &#8211; 12.22%.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the service tariff increase was mainly influenced by a 26.61% hike in postal services.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ero Vesalainen\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s annual inflation rate\u00a0eased to 5.1% in August 2024 from 5.42% in July, according to the official report released by the statistics institute INS on Wednesday, September 11. However, the figure was still higher than the 4.9% reported for June. The inflation rate since the beginning of the year (August 2024 compared to December 2023) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}