Inflation rate rises to 1.2 per cent in June
Posted Jul 19, 2013 08:40:56 AM.
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OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says the annual rate of inflation jumped half a point to a still-low 1.2 per cent last month, as gasoline and automobile prices rose sharply.
The increase put the inflation rate back into the desired range of between one and three per cent annual inflation that the Bank of Canada strives to achieve.
The major contributors in June were a 4.6-per-cent increase in gasoline prices at the pump and a two-per-cent hike in the cost of purchasing a new motor vehicle.
Food prices were up 1.2 per cent from the same month last year.
The Bank of Canada core inflation index moved up a more modest 0.2 percentage points to 1.3 per cent.
The official statistics were in line with private sector estimates.
