Consumer price index in the province continuously increases in October 2007

CPI of 9/10 group of goods and services rose over last month. Two groups’ prices increasing more than the average level are restaurants and food services (0.97 percent). Housing, electricity, fuel, building materials up 1.4%. Groups increasing lower than the average level were health services, garment, hats & caps, footwear, drinks, cigarettes, entertainment and so on. Traffic and post & telecommunication down 0.05%.

 Price index of gold increased significantly by 19.7% and in the first ten months it rose 17.2%. Price index of USD in October increased 1% against the same period.

Reported by Thanh Tam, Translated by THKC