{"id":105039,"date":"2024-09-20T08:26:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T05:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lamaisonestates.com\/?p=105039"},"modified":"2024-09-20T08:26:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T05:26:27","slug":"harmonized-consumer-price-index-rises-by-2-2-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/harmonized-consumer-price-index-rises-by-2-2-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmonized Consumer Price Index Rises by 2.2% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) saw a year-on-year increase of 2.2% between August 2023 and August 2024, as reported by the Statistical Service on Wednesday. The index also rose by 0.9% between July 2024 and August 2024, with the most notable growth observed in the Services sector.<\/p>\n<p>For the January to August 2024 period, the HICP showed a 2.3% rise compared to the same timeframe in the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>When compared to August 2023, the most significant price hikes occurred in Recreation and Culture (74%) and Restaurants and Hotels (5.6%).<\/p>\n<p>Month-on-month, from July to August 2024, the largest increases were recorded in Restaurants and Hotels (2.1%), Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages (1.7%), and Transport (1.5%).<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the January to August 2024 period versus the corresponding period in 2023, the Restaurants and Hotels sector posted the largest rise, with a 5.6% increase.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of economic origin, the Services category saw the highest growth, both in comparison to August 2023 (4.2%) and the previous month of July 2024 (1.8%).<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Stockwatch.com.cy<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) saw a year-on-year increase of 2.2% between August 2023 and August 2024, as reported by the Statistical Service on Wednesday. The index also rose by 0.9% between July 2024 and August 2024, with the most notable growth observed in the Services sector. For the January to August 2024 [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":105040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105041,"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105039\/revisions\/105041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}