Inflation slows down and stands at 5.18% in the first half of June

The underlying price index -which excludes the most volatile prices in the economy and rates set by the government- registered an increase of 0.11% at a biweekly rate and 6.91% at an annual rate.

Within core inflation, merchandise prices rose 0.08% and services 0.15%.

Non-core inflation fell 0.26% fortnightly and grew 0.03% at the annual rate. With a decrease of 0.24% in the prices of agricultural products and of 0.27% in the tariffs authorized by the government, at a biweekly rate.

Egg, domestic gas and car prices fall

Among the products that, due to their incidence, had the greatest impact on the growth of inflation are:

Tomato with a biweekly growth of 5.53%, own housing (0.15%), lunch shops, inns, bakery shops and taco shops (0.30%), chayote (22.14%), potatoes and tubers (2.39%).

And among the products whose falling prices had the greatest incidence in curbing inflation are:

The egg, with a biweekly decrease of 7.19%, domestic LP gas with -3.46%, lemon with -8.58%, mobile phone service -1.03%, fish with -1.55%, and automobiles with -0.23% .