HELSINKI: The year-on-year change in consumer prices was 0.4 per cent in June, according to Statistics Finland. In May, inflation stood at 0.3 per cent. The inflation remaining positive was influenced, for example, by increases in the consumer prices of the vehicle tax, hospital fees and reimbursable prescription medicines from one year ago.
The consumer prices were raised in June by increases in the vehicle tax, hospital fees, reimbursable prescription medicines and dental fees from one year ago, the data show. The rising of consumer prices was curbed most by reductions in the prices of liquid fuels and average housing loan interest rates from the year before. From May to June there were no changes in consumer prices.
The rate of inflation in the euro area was 0.1 per cent in June while it stood at -0.1 per cent in May, according to the preliminary data on the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices. The corresponding figure for Finland was 0.3 per cent in June.
