The consumer prices in France, whose evolution is used to measure inflation, increased marginally (+ 0.1%) in April compared to March. But they remain down year on year.
+ 0.1% in April, down 0.2% on a year the month of April was marked by a small rise in consumer prices compared with March (+ 0.2%), according to final data published on Thursday by INSEE. It “comes mainly services and, to a lesser extent, a further rise in oil prices,” notes the Institute of Statistics. Conversely, prices of manufactured goods decline slightly because of promotions. This slight reflux does not prevent the labels to be hard fall a year: on-year, inflation fell by 0.2% (mainly due to lower energy prices)
<. p> 0.3% : the rise in energy prices in April. They had already increased by 0.9% the previous month. However, they remain “very inferior” to the level of last year (-6.8% after -6.9% in March), said INSEE.
0.2 % daily services prices rose slightly last month. Moreover, it is they who raise the most in one year (+ 1%). The increase over the month was largely due to the tariffs of mobile telephony services (+ 1.7% over the month; + 3.2% YoY) and passenger air transport (+ 3.7% over one month; -7% yoy). Insurance prices are rising sharply too (+ 1.1%; + 2.4% yoy) due to promotions and increases output for automobile insurance. In addition, the seasonal decline in prices of holiday accommodation is somewhat less pronounced in April this year (-3.2% against -4.9% in April 2015; + 3.6% year on year after 1.8 % in March) due to earlier springs vacation this year
0.1% . this is the inflation forecast used by the government for this year . Bercy had initially anticipated time a figure of 1% anticipated. If low inflation initially positive effects on the purchasing power, it primarily as a result of diminishing VAT revenues and reduce savings to gels benefits. Bad news, therefore, for government coffers …
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