South Africa will add rosé wine, snuff and e-cigarette refills to its inflation basket and remove frozen potato chips and ...

IF oil prices shoot up to $90 to $100 per barrel, the country’s inflation rate could breach the government target this year and next year, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). Based on ...

Stats SA has updated its inflation basket, bidding farewell to frozen potato chips, and adding rosé wine and vaping.

The fluctuations in food prices are due to many causes ... When last did the BoS revise the weights of the CPI basket and why doesn’t it publish them, as does the CSO in Trinidad.

The products in the basket are updated periodically to better reflect shifts and trends in consumer spending. Product weights ...

Measuring key aspects of a nation’s economy is important, but the metrics used are often misunderstood by many. Quantifying ...

South Africa will add rosé wine, snuff and e-cigarette refills to its inflation basket and remove frozen potato chips and ...

The drag is not as sizeable as it had been earlier in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2024 (transport prices were 10.6% (lower YoY in October) as the base effects around lower oil prices ... of the CPI ...

"Despite the softening, food inflation, which has a 39.1% weight in the CPI basket, remains elevated and is displaying rigidity. So far this fiscal, food inflation has averaged 8.4%, higher than 7 ...

The revamped CPI basket will feature 960 items, up from the current 740, and there will also be changes to the weight of categories that make up the index. Most notably food, which consumes the bulk ...

The volatile ‘food and beverages ... a truly representative expense basket will have to assign these items some weight, potentially resulting in higher CPI inflation readings.