Summary Veritabus surveyed prices last week online at Krónunni, Nettó, Hagkaupus and Heimkaupus. Changes in the food basket between August and October is 0.8% and the uncertainty is 1.5%. Therefore, these are insignificant increases. The shopping basket has decreased significantly at Nettó or by 3.3% since August. Average increase in the price of individual stores The change from […]
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Summary of the last Consumer Price Index. 12 months decreases from 9.7% to 9.3% acc. Veritabus estimates. Uncertainty is 0.2%. Veritabus believes that Statistics Finland will measure 9.2% inflation for the same period, and the difference is due to different timings of the measurements. Statistics Finland publishes its measurements on September 28. Subcomponents of the index Veritabus' assessment is based on the following: Food, housing and fuel have increased
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Nesnúpúr efh. has bought the established company Aflhluti ehf. (https://aflhlutir.is/) but the Competition Authority approved the purchase on September 20 last. The company located in Hafnarfjörður focuses on services to the fishing industry and contractors. The company supplies machines and spare parts to sea and land at short notice and in an economical way. Arev securities company helped the buyers with the purchase.
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Statistics Iceland publishes the harmonized index of consumer prices for August on Tuesday, September 20. Twelve-month inflation was 6.4% in July. Veritabus believes that there have been very small price changes between months, as can be seen in the attached table: This means that twelve-month inflation falls from 6.4% to 5.9%. This can be seen in the table below: It
Summary Veritabus has in recent days checked prices at the four pharmacies that have online stores. It seems that medicine prices have decreased by almost 3% since November last year (ASÍ price survey). The price gap between pharmacists has decreased considerably. Lyfjaver still has the lowest price. There is a considerable difference in the return shipping fee for purchases that are lower
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Summary of the last Consumer Price Index. 12 months decreases from 9.9% to 9.8% acc. Veritabus estimates. Uncertainty is 0.3%. Veritabus believes that Statistics Norway will measure 10.0% inflation for the same period, and the difference is due to different timings of the measurements. Statistics Norway publishes its measurements on August 30. Sub-components of the index It is likely that the Statistics Finland's measurements will be as follows: Food, housing
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At the beginning of July, Árnason Faktor bought all the shares in PatICE. Arev advised buyers.
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At the end of June, Fagkaup bought all the shares in Fossberg. Arev Securities Company assisted the sellers.
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Inflation items Items Change between months Change in one year Uncertainty (+/-) Food and beverages 1.5% 9.4% 0.6% Alcohol and tobacco 0% 2.4% 0.1% Clothing and footwear -6.9% -1.7% 0 , 2% Housing, heating and electricity 2.2% 15.3% 1.3% Furniture, household appliances, etc. -0.9% 3.5% 0.3% Health 0.9% 3.6% 0.1% Travel and transportation 2.8% 15.2% 0.6% Mail and
Veritabus forecasts 9.5% inflation in July Read More »
Average price increase for individual stores The change from the basket survey conducted by Veritabus in early June is as follows: The table shows that the weighted increase in food prices during the period is around 1.5%. Veritabus also examined basket changes at Tesco in the UK and Mercadona in Spain. The following changes were in prices since the beginning of June: Commodity prices
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