{"id":38617,"date":"2026-03-23T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=38617"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:05:38","slug":"singapores-core-inflation-rises-to-1-4-in-february-highest-since-december-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=38617","title":{"rendered":"Singapore\u2019s core inflation rises to 1.4% in February, highest since December 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>SECTORS<\/h2>\n<p>Official data released on Monday showed that accommodation inflation declined to 0.3 per cent in February from 1.9 per cent the month before. This was due to a smaller increase in the cost of housing maintenance and repairs, said MAS and MTI.<\/p>\n<p>Private transport inflation eased from 2.7 per cent in January to 2.4 per cent in February on account of a larger decline in petrol prices in February.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity and gas prices fell from -4.2 per cent to -4.3 per cent because of a steeper decline in electricity prices in February, while retail and other goods inflation picked up slightly from 0.5 to 0.6 per cent due to a larger increase in the cost of medicines and health products, as well as higher prices for furniture and furnishings.<\/p>\n<p>Food inflation rose to 1.6 per cent in February from 1.2 per cent, as the prices of non-cooked food and food services rose at a quicker pace.<\/p>\n<p>Services inflation went up to 2 per cent, from 1.5 per cent, primarily because of an increase in airfares and the cost of holiday expenses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/core-inflation-cpi-prices-february-2026-mas-mti-6010751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SECTORS Official data released on Monday showed that accommodation inflation declined to 0.3 per cent in February from 1.9 per cent the month before. This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--E5h42A7L--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_96\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2024\/11\/25\/iStock-1365204248.jpg?itok=VmMk2uH0","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2555,4225,11523,4287,6200,7509,209],"class_list":["post-38617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-core","tag-december","tag-february","tag-highest","tag-inflation","tag-rises","tag-singapores","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}