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Viktor Orbán spoke about the future of the price cap
In the case of foodstuffs, as inflation comes down, the price caps that still exist will be removed – the Prime Minister said on Kossuth Rádió Good morning, Hungary! in...
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The government is expected to extend the price freeze by 3 months
If the government is waiting for inflation to drop appreciably, it will only happen in the second half of the year. Therefore, it is not out of the question that...
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GVH introduces the online price monitoring system, which makes different pricing practices transparent
By setting up an online price monitoring system accessible to consumers, the government and the Economic Competition Authority would moderate the record high inflation in European comparison. The system, which...
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We can expect horror prices when it comes to Easter ham
The supply will be plentiful, but the prices will be high among Easter hams. Real wages have been falling for four months now, which has a spectacular effect on the...
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Inflation eased, but food prices still rose the most in the euro area
Inflation slowed down in the euro zone in February, the statistical office of the European Union announced on Friday. According to Eurostat’s final data, annual inflation in the euro area...
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The Croatian government has limited the prices of some basic foodstuffs
At its meeting on Thursday, the Croatian government adopted its fourth comprehensive package of measures designed to alleviate the crisis caused by the rise in the cost of living, with...
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Inflation slowed in Italy, but food prices rose
In Italy, consumer prices rose by 9.1 percent year-on-year in February, after a 10 percent increase in January, the Italian statistical office, Istat, announced on Thursday. February 2022 is the...
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The decline in retail turnover moderated in the Czech Republic
In January, retail sales in the Czech Republic decreased by 7.7 percent, after 8.1 percent in December. The decline in the turnover of the Czech retail trade has thus been...
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The Croatian government presented its new package of measures to curb price increases
On Tuesday, the Croatian government presented its new package of measures aimed at curbing price increases, the total value of which is 1.7 billion euros (636.4 billion forints), and the...
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KSH: in February, prices increased by 25.4 percent compared to the same month of the previous year
In February of this year, consumer prices were on average 25.4 percent higher than a year earlier. In the past year, household energy and food prices have risen the most,...
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Inflation decreased to 25.4%
Inflation moderated to 25.4% in February after the peak of 25.7% in January, which was primarily caused by the drop in fuel prices in February, on the other hand, the...
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Mastercard says shoppers buy less but shop more often
According to a forecast for 2023 by the Mastercard Economics Institute, shoppers will have to change the contents of their shopping baskets if they wish to keep up with the...
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The British are in trouble, some vegetables can only be bought in limited quantities
When shopping, the British are once again faced with empty cardboard boxes and shelves in place of fresh produce. The largest supermarkets have introduced limited purchase quantities for certain types...
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In January, food prices rose by 7.3 percent in Japan, an inflation rate that has never been seen before
In January, food prices rose by 7.3 percent in Japan, an unprecedented rate of inflation Inflation exceeded the target of the Bank of Japan for the tenth consecutive month, which...
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K&H: that’s how much Hungarians spent on food
Inflation accelerating to a multi-decade peak is clearly visible, including the more than 40 percent increase in food prices for card spending, according to K&H’s summary. In December last year,...
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American producer prices rose more than expected in January
The American producer price index rose more than expected in January, according to the statistics institute of the Washington Department of Labor, the U.S. Based on Thursday’s report from the...
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Food prices have already started to fall, as the GVH began to investigate
Competition has become greater in retail, more people have reduced food prices – says Balázs Csaba Rigó, president of the Economic Competition Authority. In the hope of finding out whether...
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The average salary today is enough for less bread and more milk, chicken and potatoes than in the Kádár system
The data continuously published by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) and published by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) in recent days are thought-provoking. The MNB has published a special series...
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UK inflation has eased, but food inflation remains high within the overall basket
Annual British inflation slowed significantly but was still above 10 percent in January, particularly due to food prices. According to the report of the British Statistics Office (ONS) on Wednesday,...
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MNB vice-president: it is necessary for the food price competition to start going down
Barnabás Virág, vice president of the Hungarian National Bank (MNB), told Napi.hu that it is good news that the rise in food inflation has stopped. At the same time, according...
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The end of the price cap: which food will consumers really miss with lower prices?
During the year, there were several reports of empty shelves in stores and periods of stock shortages, which may end with the end of the price cap after April 15....
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MNB vice president: the number one “enemy” is inflation
In the current turbulent economic situation, inflation is the number one enemy for central banks worldwide – and especially in the region – said Mihály Patai, vice-president of the Magyar...
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Will the price of sugar double when the price cap is over? Analysts circle the topic
It is not yet known how food prices will change if the price cap is removed. Analysts have different opinions. “It’s not easy to predict how big the price increase...
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Basic food is also cheaper in German stores than here
According to RTL’s summary, milk in Germany costs HUF 280-350, toast bread costs HUF 581, and sour cream costs HUF 269. Cow curd is very cheap, only HUF 292. 10...
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Csaba Héjja: the end of the price cap will affect food inflation for a while
Csaba Héjja, senior analyst at MKB Bank and Takarékbank, spoke to InfoRádio about why food inflation was the highest in Hungary and what to expect after the price cap is...
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György Raskó: galloping food inflation will stop within weeks
According to agricultural economist György Raskó, galloping food inflation will stop, it’s only a matter of weeks. And the reason for this is precisely the high cost and the resulting...
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The same product is up to 63 percent cheaper in the Romanian store than here
Milk is cheaper here than in Romania, but there are quite a few products that are available at a much more favorable price in the Romanian Lidl than in the...
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Balázs Csaba Rigó: it seems that customers do not allow profiteering on groceries
Balázs Csaba Rigó, the president of the GVH, spoke on ATV’s Egyenes Beszéd program about the competition office’s investigations into whether the drastic price increases were justified. “The price increases...
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Monetary advice: Food prices fall to pre-Russian-Ukrainian war levels
The long-term maintenance of strict monetary conditions is necessary, which ensures the anchoring of inflation expectations and the achievement of the inflation target in a sustainable manner – the Monetary...
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Tesco president: some food suppliers raise prices unreasonably
Some food supply companies raise their prices more than necessary “under the pretext of inflation”, said the president of Tesco on Sunday. John Allan, the BBC’s weekly political magazine show...
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