The INDEC CPI recorded a variation of 2.8% in the fourth month of the year, below 3.7% in March. Food just above average.
Inflation slowed considerably in April, Despite the change in the exchange scheme that generated a monthly increase of almost 9% in the price of the official dollar. Within the food, the rises were highlighted in eggs and meats, as well as falls in the value of several vegetables.
Within the most important divisions that make up the INDEC Consumer Price Index (CPI)the largest variation were restaurants and hotels (+4.1%), clothing and footwear (+3.8%) and Non -alcoholic foods and drinks (+2.9%). At the other end, the most limited settings were home equipment and maintenance (+0.9%), transport (+1.7%) and housing (+1.9%).
In Greater Buenos Aires (GBA), the basic products that rose the most in the fourth month of the year were the following:
- Round tomato (+16.2%)
- Chicken eggs (+12.5%)
- Make fillet (+10.7%)
- Whole chicken (+8.8%)
- Ground coffee (+7.3%)
- Beer (+6.6%)
- Palette (+5.8%)
- Dulce de Milk (+5.4%)
- Minced meat (+5%)
- Sunflower oil (+5%)
On the contrary, Falls were verified in the prices of the following goods:
- Lettuce (-32.7%)
- Lemon (-30.7%)
- Pope (-11.5%)
- Anco pumpkin (-8%)
- Onion (-5.2%)
- White rice (-3.6%)
- Yerba (-2.8%)
- Banana (-2.1%)
- Sweet cookie (-0.3%)
- Discardable diapers (-0.2%)
Core inflationthat does not contemplate regulated or seasonal prices, It was 3.2%, exactly like last month, located at a level similar to the seven months ago. On the contrary, regulated and seasonal prices categories advanced 1.8% and 1.9%, respectively.
So far from 2025, the general CPI accumulated a variation of 11.6%. While, In the interannual comparison, the increase was 47.3
Source: Ambito
