Energy prices driving-force behind 5% rise in inflation

Energy prices drive up inflation in Spain in September

Spanish inflation jumped in September due mainly to higher electricity and fuel prices, preliminary data showed Thursday.

Energy prices driving-force behind 5% rise in inflation

Muireann Duffy Inflation showed a very marginal increase in the month to September, rising just 0.1 per cent since August, but was up 5 per cent annually according to the Central Statistics Office. The EU Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) showed Ireland was slightly below the annual rate of all the Eurozone countries combined, which was 5.2 per cent. The HICP is a harmonised version of... Source