The Consumer Price Index – Weekly (IPC-S) dropped 1.13% in the first four weeks of August, after falling 1.19% at the end of July.
The information was released this Monday (8) by the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV). The indicator accumulates a high of 6.02% in 12 months, lower than the advance of 8.0% in the period up to July.
Three of the eight categories of expenses that make up the indicator accelerated from the last four weeks of July to the first of August, especially Housing (-0.70% to -0.44%).
The item with the greatest influence in the group was the residential electricity tariff (-5.13% to -3.81%).
Health and Personal Care (0.45% to 0.53%) and Food (1.34% to 1.40%) were the other groups to register progress.
In these classes, the items with the greatest weight were hygiene and personal care items (-0.42% to 0.15%) and vegetables (-11.40% to -9.66%).
On the other hand, Education, Reading and Recreation (-4.06% to -4.40%), Communication (-0.09% to -0.23%), Miscellaneous Expenses (0.30% to 0.28%) and Transport (-4.81% to -4.98%) had relief compared to the end of July.
In these groups, the most influential changes were airfare (-19.81% to -25.75%), mobile phone tariff (-0.65% to -1.31%), pet food (0 .02% to -0.45%) and gasoline (-14.24% to -16.62%).
The Apparel group, in turn, repeated the 0.47% increase recorded in the last reading, with pressure from watches and jewelry (1.00% to 2.12%) and relief from men’s clothing (0.99% to 0 .36%).
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Long life milk (22.11% to 20.31%), health plan and insurance (1.17% to 1.17%) and mozzarella cheese (9.33% to 10.18%) were the items that exerted upward pressure on the IPC-S of the first four weeks of August.
Shampoo, conditioner and cream (1.55% to 3.71%) and meals in bars and restaurants (0.67% to 0.54%) complete the list.
In the other direction, gasoline (-14.24% to -16.62%), airfare (-19.81% to -25.75%) and residential electricity tariff (-5.13% to -3.81 %) pulled the indicator down, followed by ethanol (-11.02% to -11.09%) and tomato (-22.39% to -21.64%).
Source: CNN Brasil
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