Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices

In a surprising move in its meeting today, 7 August, the Board of the National Bank of Romania decided to cut the monetary policy rate to 6.50 percent per annum from 6.75 percent, effective 8 August 2024. The central bank also lowered the…

In its meeting of 4 April 2024, the Board of the National Bank of Romania (NBR) decided to keep the monetary policy rate at 7.00 percent per annum and to leave unchanged the lending (Lombard) facility rate at 8.00 percent per annum and…

The annual rate of inflation decreased in July 2023 to 9.4%, from 10.3% in June, amid food goods price hikes by 16.24%, non-food goods by 4.25%, and services by 11.65%, according to the data of the National Institute of Statistics,…

In its meeting of 7 August 2023, the Board of the National Bank of Romania decided to keep the monetary policy rate at 7.00 percent per annum and to leave unchanged the lending (Lombard) facility rate at 8.00 percent per annum and the…

In its meeting of 5 October 2022, the Board of the National Bank of Romania decided to increase the monetary policy rate to 6.25 percent per annum from 5.50 percent per annum as of 6 October 2022 and also to raise the lending (Lombard)…

Consumer prices were up 0.6% in August 2022 from July 2022. The inflation rate since the beginning of the year (August 2022 compared to December 2021) is 11.6%. The annual inflation rate in August 2022 compared to August 2021 is 15.3%, says…

Consumer prices were up 2.2% in October 2020 compared to October 2019. The annual rate calculated on the basis of the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) is 1.8%, according to the latest report by the National Institute of Statistics…