(ANSA) – ROME, MARCH 01 – According to preliminary estimates, in February 2022 the national consumer price index for the entire community (NIC), before tobacco, recorded an increase of 0.9% on monthly basis and 5.7% on an annual basis (from + 4.8% in the previous month). This was announced by Istat, stating that such a level of inflation had not been recorded since November 1995 and that it is the prices of non-regulated energy goods that push the growth in the cost of living upwards.
In February, “inflationary tensions spread, in particular to foodstuffs, whose prices accelerate by more than one point, dragging the price growth of the so-called ‘shopping cart’ by over 4%”. Last month both the prices of food goods, for home and personal care (from + 3.2% in January to + 4.2%) and those of products with high frequency of purchase (from +4 , 3% to + 5.4%).
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Source: Ansa
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