{"id":390064,"date":"2025-09-01T20:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/390064\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T20:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:06:16","slug":"food-prices-rise-by-5-in-august-flash-estimate-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/390064\/","title":{"rendered":"Food prices rise by 5% in August, flash estimate shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New estimated inflation figures from the Central Statistics Office show that food prices rose by 5% in August compared to the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p>The figures also show that food prices were up by 0.4% in August from July.<\/p>\n<p>The CSO estimated that consumer prices &#8211; as measured by the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices shows &#8211; rose 1.8% on an annual basis in August from 1.6% a month earlier &#8211; the highest rate since April.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Statistics Office said that core HICP, which excludes energy and unprocessed food, increased to 1.9%, from 1.7% in July.<\/p>\n<p>The figures also show that energy prices are estimated to have fallen by 0.3% in the month and decreased by 0.1% over the 12 months to August.<\/p>\n<p>The corresponding flash estimate for the euro zone will be published tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The CSO said the flash estimates are subject to revision when the final HICP results are published next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New estimated inflation figures from the Central Statistics Office show that food prices rose by 5% in August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-390064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115130845399762638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}