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Consumer prices in August 2019: 1.4% rise on August 2018 expected
The inflation rate in Germany as measured by the consumer price index (VPI) is expected to be 1.4% in August 2019. Based on the results available so far, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the consumer prices are expected to decline by 0.2% on July 2019. table In August 2019, the harmonised index of consumer prices for Germany (HICP), which is calculated for European purposes, is expected to increase by 1.0% year on year and decrease by 0.1% on July 2019. The expected difference of 0.4 percentage points between the year-on-year change rates of the HICP and the CPI is due to a special ... (full story)