(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 31 - Inflation still rising.
According to preliminary Istat estimates, in August the national consumer price index for the entire community (Nic), gross of tobacco, recorded an increase of 0.8% on a monthly basis and 8.4% on an annual basis ( from + 7.9% of the previous month).
"It is electricity and free market gas that produce the acceleration in the prices of non-regulated energy goods (partly mitigated by the slowdown in those of fuels) and that, with processed and durable foodstuffs, push inflation to a level that does not it had been recording since December 1985 (when it was + 8.8%) ", Istat explained.
The prices of the so-called shopping cart run even more.
The prices of food, household and personal care in August grew by 9.7% (from the previous + 9.1%), an increase that has not been observed since June 1984, according to Istat.
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