Fuel prices push up inflation marginally

For the month of August, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) reported this week, annual inflation increased by a marginal 0.1 percentage points to 6.1 percent from 6 percent in July.

In a statement, the CSO attributed the slight change to the Transport index, which was the only group index to record a change of more than 1 percent. It increased by 1.8 percent between July and August largely due to the constituent section index of Operation of Personal Transport, which rose 3.3 percent.