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<\/a><\/p>\nSlight rise in consumer prices<\/strong><\/p>\n The consumer price index saw a\u00a0slight\u00a0rise in the month of February. The indicator showed an increase of 0.3%. The national consumer price index now stands at 98.9 points. The basis for the points scale are the prices from December 2010 (December 2010 = 100 points). Crude oil is more\u00a0expensive, food stuffs are cheaper<\/strong><\/p>\n The consumer had to pay more at the pump. Gasoline, diesel and heating oil have all seen an increase in cost. At the same time, however, the cost of clothing and shoes is also on the rise. The reason for this development is the end of the seasonal discounted sales periods in certain areas of the clothing industry. Another place where consumers have to pay more is housing. Aside from the increased cost of heating oil, the cost of rent has also seen an upward trend. Food stuffs, alcohol and\u00a0tobacco\u00a0products have all seen a drop in price. The alcohol and tobacco saw prices drop\u00a0mainly\u00a0as a result of special sales promotions while the food stuffs prices reduction can be attributed to seasonal price fluctuations. The Swiss Federal Department for Statistics (BfS) recorded a slight rise in consumer prices in the month of\u00a0February. It was found that prices had increases 0.3% that month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[316],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":1709,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54Pb1-k0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn comparison with the February of the year prior, inflation has gone back slightly by around 0.3%. Looking at the long-term development of prices, one can see that this has been\u00a0relatively\u00a0constant over the past few year. In comparison with the year 2005, the average price today is only around 3% higher. In comparison with the year 1993 one can see that the average consumer today has to pay about 15% more than 20 years ago. Looking at this long-term development we can therefore see that the rise in consumer prices has been somewhat moderate.<\/p>\n
\nThe press release from the Swiss Federal Department of\u00a0Statistics\u00a0pertaining to these findings, as well as further information, can be found on their hompage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"