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Prices

Consumer prices stablise

CONSUMER PRICES remained unchanged in July and are now down by only 0.1% since July of last year according to the CSO. Clothing prices are down almost 9% over the year while food and non-alcoholic beverage prices are down almost 4%. Education and utilities are up by 9.2% and 5.5% respectively.

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