HCMC’s CPI inches up 0.15%

HCMC General Statistics Office says the city’s consumer price index (CPI) this month rose 0.15 percent and 5.87 percent in January-October, nearly two points below the national average.

Among the groups that recorded the sharpest increases in the country’s economic engine were: transport, post and telecommunications, housing, water, electricity, fuel and construction materials.

Foodstuffs rose 0.03 percent from September and beverages and tobacco recorded modest increases, Vietnam News Agency reported.

This month’s gold price rose 5.03 percent from September while the U.S. dollar fell a slight 0.33 percent from last month.

In the first nine months of the year, consumer prices rose 7.64 percent across the country, driven mainly by increased food prices, according to the General Statistics Office.

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