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The annual inflation rate dropped to 3.6 percent in January this year, from 4 percent in December of last year, given that the food stuff prices went up by 4, 75 percent, services by 4.01 percent, and non-food goods by 2.68%, according to data released on Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
The average rate of consumer prices in the last 12 months (February 2019 - January 2020) compared to the previous 12 months (February 2018 - January 2019), calculated on the basis of the CPI, is 3.8 percent.
The National Bank of Romania has reduced the inflation forecast for 2020 to 3 percent, from 3.1 percent, as previously estimated, the governor of BNR Mugur Isarescu announced on Tuesday.
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