The Wholesale Price Index rose 6.1% in December and accumulated an increase of 94.8% during the past year, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) reported this Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the Cost of Construction advanced 5.8% in the last month of the year and rose 97.6% during 2022.
In this way, INDEC completed the dissemination of the variation in price indices that began last week when it reported that retailers rose 5.1% in December and 94.8% throughout the year.
In the wholesale segment, during December, Primary products rose 6%; Manufactured 5.4%; those imported 8%, all of these increases that were compensated in statistical terms by a 1% drop in the value of electrical energy consumed by companies.
Among Primary Products, the 10.1% increase in Agricultural Products, 7.7% in Crude Oil and Gas, 6.8% in Non-metallic Minerals, and a 2.1% drop in Fisheries stood out.
