2020.04.1509:13:00UTC+00Slovakia Inflation Slows In March

Slovakia's consumer price inflation eased in March, figures from the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic showed on Wednesday.

The consumer price index rose 2.3 percent year-on-year in March, slower than 3.0 percent increase in February and January. Economists had expected a 2.4 percent rise.

Prices for education grew 5.0 percent in March and those of miscellaneous goods and services, and food and non-alcoholic beverages increased by 4.2 percent and 3.7 percent, respectively.

On a month-on-month basis, consumer prices remained unchanged in March, after a 0.1 percent rise in the previous month.

The core inflation rose 2.4 percent in March and the index fell 0.1 percent from the previous month.