core inflation, that eliminates the prices of the most volatile productshad an advance of .50% at a fortnightly rate and 7.47% at an annual rate. A rate higher than that of the last half of May, of 7.32% annual.
Within this index, the goods were up .64% and the services .33% in the first fortnight of June. And, within the merchandise, the category of food, beverages and tobacco had a increase of .74% fortnightly and 11.71% at annual rate.
The non-core index -which includes agricultural products, energy and tariffs authorized by the government- grew .49% fortnightly and 9.13% at an annual rate. The prices of agricultural products had an increase of .85%compared to the last fortnight of May,
Among the prices that most influenced the rise in National consumer price indexhighlight the potato and other tuberswith a fortnightly increase of 16.79%the chickenthe electricitythe refreshments and the orange.
But also services like lunch shops, torterías fondas and taco shops (.47% biweekly), restaurants (.62%) and air Transportwith a fortnightly increase of 6.62%.
At the bottom stand out the domestic LP gaswith a decrease of 1.52% at a fortnightly rate, lemonthe serrano chili and other foods, including egg down .49%.
This Thursday the announcement of the decision of monetary politics of Bank of Mexicowhere the market expects the interest rate to rise by 75 basis pointsfollowing the rate hike in USA.
The task of the Bank of Mexico (Banxico), in addition to returning the price level to a range of 3% +/- one percentage point, will be to prevent medium- and long-term inflationary expectations from skyrocketing, specialists agreed during the Meeting Expansión Analysis of the government price control policy.