Bank analysts in Slovakia have again raised their estimates of this year's rise in consumer prices, the SITA newswire wrote on May 25. According to the May survey of the National Bank of Slovakia, bank analysts predict the harmonised inflation to rise to 4.2 percent at the end of the year compared with April forecasts that estimated a growth rate of 3.9 percent. Bankers also raised their estimate of the growth of consumer prices in December 2011 from 3.9 percent in April to 4.1 percent.
Source: SITA
Compiled by Zuzana Vilikovská from press reports
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