The year-on-year growth of consumer prices in Slovakia as measured by the European Union’s harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) continued to decelerate in March, the SITA newswire wrote.
The Statistics Office of the Slovak Republic reported that harmonised inflation stood at 1.8 percent in March 2009, down 0.6 percentage points from February. On a month-on-month basis, prices in March fell 0.3 percent, after stagnating in February. Harmonised inflation was 3.7 percent on average for the last twelve months. SITA
Compiled by Zuzana Vilikovská from press reports
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