Inflation over three percent

Consumer prices were on average 3.1 percent higher in June than in the previous year and compared with May, increased by an average of 0.3 percent – the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reported on Tuesday.

Over the past year, the price of automotive fuels and tobacco prices increased the most significantly, fuel by 15.0 percent, while for tobacco consumers had to pay 8.9 percent more in June than the year before – Mináry Borbála, Head of Department of the Central Statistical Office (KSH) told. (MTI)