Buenos Aires (EFE).- Prices in Argentina rose 1.4 percentage points in June compared to the previous month and placed the interannual rate at 115.6%, reported the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec).
In the sixth month of the year, consumer prices grew 6% compared to last May, which shows, for the second consecutive month, a slight slowdown compared to the inflation rate of 8.4% in April and 7.6%. of May.
Goods had a positive variation of 5.5% last month compared to May, while services rose 7.2%, data that amount to 115.7% and 114.8%, respectively, in the year-over-year comparison
Among the increases registered in June, those of communications (10.5%) stand out, as a result of the increase in telephone and internet services, health (8.6%), due to increases in medicines and in the quotas of medicine companies private, and housing expenses (8.1%), mainly due to increases in electricity.
But the division with the highest incidence was food and non-alcoholic beverages, with an increase of 4.1% in relation to May and 116.9% in interannual terms.
In the first half of the year, inflation accumulated a rise of 50.7%.
Consumer prices accumulated a rise of 94.8% last year, with a notable acceleration compared to the 50.9% verified in 2021.
The most recent private forecasts collected monthly by the Central Bank of Argentina suggest that inflation will be 142.4% this year and 105% in 2024.