May 8 (Reuters) – Colombia’s consumer prices rose 0.78% in the fourth month of 2026, the \u200ccountry’s DANE statistics agency said on Friday, taking \u200ccumulative 12-month price growth to 5.68%.<\/p>\n
April’s inflation data was a touch \u200babove the 0.73% expectation of analysts polled by Reuters, and flat compared to the prior month.<\/p>\n
Year-on-year inflation slightly edged up from the 5.56% recorded in March \u200cand landed just \u2060a touch above the 5.63% predicted by analysts.<\/p>\n
This remains well above the central bank’s \u2060target range of 3%, plus or minus a percentage point.<\/p>\n
March’s price hikes were led by food and non-alcoholic \u200bdrinks, home \u200bservices and transport. Prices \u200bin the information and \u200ccommunication sector dipped slightly.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, the technical team for Colombia’s central bank edged up its forecast for this year’s inflation, predicting the rate will end 2026 at 6.4%. It maintained its estimate that \u200cinflation will ease to 3.7% the \u200bfollowing year.<\/p>\n
Days earlier, the bank’s \u200bboard unanimously voted \u200bto keep its benchmark interest rate \u200cat 11.25%, following a public \u200bspat between board \u200bmembers and the country’s leftist government, represented on the board by Finance Minister German Avila.<\/p>\n
Here is \u200ba breakdown \u200cof Colombia’s consumer prices:<\/p>\n
March April<\/p>\n
Change in month(%) +0.78 +0.78<\/p>\n
Accumulated 12 months(%) +5.56 +5.68<\/p>\n
Food \u200band non-alcoholic +1.27 +1.51<\/p>\n
beverages(%)<\/p>\n
Housing and public +0.85 +0.70<\/p>\n
services(%)<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Sarah Morland; Editing \u200bby Daina Beth Solomon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 8 (Reuters) – Colombia’s consumer prices rose 0.78% in the fourth month of 2026, the \u200ccountry’s DANE…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,27459,9970,101,273335,6301],"class_list":["post-632442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-colombia","tag-consumer-prices","tag-economy","tag-fourth-month","tag-inflation-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}