Private consultants agree that there was a slowdown with respect to 2.7% of December.
In the face of the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC) Make known on February 13 the inflation data corresponding to January, the surveys of private consultants indicate that the IPC data It will be between 2% and 2.5% in the first month of the year. If these predictions are met, the number will be below 2.7% of December.
According to the projection of the Libertad & Progreso Foundation, January inflation was 2%, which would represent a 0.7% decrease compared to December. Regarding prices behavior throughout the month, they analyzed that “inflation He maintained his tendency to a slowdown, with weekly variations around 0.3%. “
In that sense, they pointed out that in the last week of the month there was an “acceleration up to a rhythm of 0.5%, mainly driven by the food item, with a strong incidence of increases in the price of meat.”
The Balancia consultant estimated that the January consumer price index was 2.1%. Economist Lorenzo Sigaut Gravina, part of the team that worked in the report, spoke of the low food prices: “There was an important deceleration, especially in food and drinkswhich in December had been very influenced by the rise in the flesh. “
In turn, LCG said that January inflation It was 2% although he warned that “The four -week end collapses in half.”
Along the same lines, Ecogo anticipated that it was 2.3% because “responds to a Increase in food greater than expected and auction of 17.6% in ‘labor’ of the ICC (consumer confidence index) and in cigarettes “.
Meanwhile, the highest index calculated it Empiria, With a 2.5%. “The increase in regulated goods and services estimates it close to 2%, marking an important slowdown in relation to the previous month,” said economist Gonzalo Lacunza.
Source: Ambito
