At a supermarket in HCM City (Source: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City posted a month-on-month rise of 0.52 percentin the consumer price index (CPI) in November, the municipal Statistics Officereported.
The office said the city’s CPI grew 3.8 percent in the January-November periodas compared with the corresponding time last year.
Seven out of the 11 commodity groups recorded price hikes , namely food andcatering services (up 1.31 percent), beverage and cigarette (0.93 percent), apparel,headgear and footwear (up 0.02 percent), housing, electricity and water (0.53 percent),equipment and household utensils (up 0.13 percent), medicine and healthcareservices (0.01 percent), and other goods and services (0.36 percent).
According to the office, the price of gold in November was down 0.5 percentmonth-on-month, but up 14.39 percent against December 2018 and 14.07 percentyear-on-year.
The price of US dollars in the month remained unchanged from October anddecreased 0.52 percent as compared with the same month last year./.
VNA
