The annual inflation in Bulgaria slowed down significantly in January, 2024, down to 3.8% from 4.7% a month earlier, the National Statistical Institute says. This is the lowest inflation level for the country since August 2021. Month-to-month, inflation has gone up in January by 0.5% compared to the previous month, when it went up by 0.3%.
Within one month, the steepest rise – by 2.2% - is of the prices from the consumer group “housing, water, electricity, gas and fuels”. With food and soft drinks, the increase is by 1%. In education, services have gone up by 0.8%, in healthcare – by 0.6%, in the hotel and restaurant business – by 0.4%. Prices have gone down in the “clothes and shoes” category – by 3.5%. In transport prices have gone down by 1.7%.
According to the prices from the small consumer basket for the lowest-income 20% of households, the price rise was highest for services – 3.7%, and food – 1.1%.
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T he LNG terminal near the Greek town of Alexandroupolis has officially srarted commercial operations today, the Greek company Gastrade announced. The..
In September, the overall Business Climate Indicator for the country decreased by 1 point compared to August. The decline reflects a less favourable..
The final price proposed by Bulgargaz for the sale of natural gas to its customers in October is BGN 63.72 (EUR 32.58) per megawatt-hour before tax. The..
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