{"id":664997,"date":"2025-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2025\/05\/11\/inflation-rises-again-in-april-to-sit-at-13-9\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T00:00:00","slug":"inflation-rises-again-in-april-to-sit-at-13-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2025\/05\/11\/inflation-rises-again-in-april-to-sit-at-13-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation rises again in April to sit at 13.9%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>Annual headline urban inflation rose for the second month running in April to hit 13.9%<\/strong>, marking 0.3 percentage point increase from the 13.6% recorded in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/887b908d-b7c1-4275-8cae-5a88ee5c4cc7\/%253cmark%253einflation%253c%2Fmark%253e-picks-up-in-march,-snapping-months-long-downward-trend\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">March<\/a>, according to data from state statistics agency Capmas. On a monthly basis, inflation eased by 0.3 percentage points to 1.3%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Driving the trend: <\/strong>Food and beverage price inflation, the largest component of the basket of goods and services used to calculate headline inflation, fell 0.6 percentage points to 6.0% in April. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Largely in line with expectations:<\/strong> The inflation reading came in line with forecasts set by experts we spoke to, who saw the figure coming in at 13.4-13.9% as rising energy prices keep the figure elevated. Banking expert Hany Abou El Fotouh cited \u201crecent fuel price hikes and the demand pressure during holiday season,\u201d while HC Securities\u2019 Heba Mounir cited \u201cthe favourable base year effect and increasing energy prices.\u201d Meanwhile, Thndr Securities Brokerage\u2019s Chief Equity Strategist Amr El Alfy was more optimistic, predicting the annual figure to come in at 13.4%. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>REMEMBER- <\/strong>The Oil Ministry\u2019s fuel pricing committee <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/a9f5df8f-c96f-419c-ad3a-98ea585d16c7\/gov%25e2%2580%2599t-hikes%253cmark%253e-fuel-prices%253c%2Fmark%253e-by-up-to-14.8%2525\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">raised<\/a> fuel prices by 11.8-14.8% last month, in what was the government\u2019s first fuel price hike since <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/2e1e29b9-af1f-412d-9492-354ca6e76353\/egypt-hikes-fuel-prices-for-the-third-time-this-year\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">October 2024<\/a>. Analysts we spoke to last month all agreed that the price hike will add to inflationary pressures \u2014 and even push up the headline figure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>What about core inflation? <\/strong>The central bank should release the figure for core inflation later today. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>So, what does this mean for interest rates? <\/strong>\u201cThe central bank can make a number of decisions when its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets in May without jeopardizing monetary and financial stability, given the widening gap between interest rates and inflation,\u201d Ahly Pharos head of research Hany Genena told EnterpriseAM. \u201cI don\u2019t see the point in postponing the two percentage point rate cut, seeing as inflation will remain close to its current levels until the end of the year.\u201d <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>ICYMI<\/strong><strong>- <\/strong>Supported by cooling inflation in the first quarter of 2025, the CBE\u2019s MPC <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/030e8a7e-a0f6-48c5-bf6c-794c43555671\/cbe-cuts%253cmark%253e-rates%253c%2Fmark%253e-for-the-first-time-since-november-2020\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">cut interest<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/030e8a7e-a0f6-48c5-bf6c-794c43555671\/cbe-cuts%253cmark%253e-rates%253c%2Fmark%253e-for-the-first-time-since-november-2020\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">rates by 225 bps<\/a> in its second meeting of the year last month, in what was the first change to the policy rates since <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/3135c499-31a4-4ef0-b26f-5009f0430da5\/this-evening:-cbe-floats-the-egp,-goes-for-600-bps-rate-hike\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2024<\/a>, following seven consecutive meetings where rates were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/33887fd4-82fe-47f2-901d-7377ee97b0df\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">held steady<\/a>. It is also the bank\u2019s first rate cut since November 2020. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The news received attention from: <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/egyptian-inflation-climbs-139-april-2025-05-10\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/business\/2025\/05\/10\/egypts-inflation-climbs-for-a-second-month-on-higher-food-costs\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">The National<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual headline urban inflation fell 0.3 percentage points from the previous month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":664998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7206],"tags":[330,104,72,182],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-664997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-capmas","tag-economy","tag-enterpriseam","tag-inflation","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"5f90826f-9546-4d3b-a410-316f1a7aac3d","order":"4","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/5\/735.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Egypt\u2019s inflation rises again in April to sit at 13.9%","related_issue":[664992],"teaser":"Annual headline urban inflation fell 0.3 percentage points from the previous month","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2025\/5\/.cb8baf09-f5fc-4fd6-961c-c2ccd7d2be4a.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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