{"id":48887,"date":"2014-09-05T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/inflation-rate-surpasses-top-end-of-target\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:04:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:04:50","slug":"inflation-rate-surpasses-top-end-of-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/inflation-rate-surpasses-top-end-of-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation rate surpasses top end of target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rio de Janeiro &ndash; The Broad Consumer Price Index (IPCA, in the Portuguese acronym), i.e. Brazil&rsquo;s official inflation index, ended August at 0.25%. In July, the rate stood at 0.01% and in August last year, at 0.24%.<\/p>\n<p> According to data released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) this Friday (5th), the IPCA stood at 4.02% year-to-date through August and at 6.51% in the twelve-month period, slightly above the top end of the government&rsquo;s target range, which is 6.5%.<\/p>\n<p> Inflation in August was again pushed up by housing expenses with a 0.94% rate, accounting for more than half the IPCA. The leading individual items causing the hike in the index were domestic workers, up 1.26%, and electricity tariffs, up 1.76% in August.<\/p>\n<p> Food, in turn, had a deflation of 0.15% and prevented a steeper hike in the IPCA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Rodrigo Mendon&ccedil;a<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official index was 6.51% in the twelve-month period ended August. Last month, the rate increased by 0.25%, as against 0.01% in July. Electricity tariffs and domestic workers&#8217; wages drove the index up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"The official index was 6.51% in the twelve-month period ended August. Last month, the rate increased by 0.25%, as against 0.01% in July. Electricity tariffs and domestic workers' wages drove the index up.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}