Overview
- The City of Buenos Aires CPI, released Wednesday, showed monthly inflation of 1.8% for June, the lowest monthly rate in ten months and down from 2.1% in May.
- Food and drink prices slowed to about 1.6% in June and helped pull the headline down even as housing, health, home maintenance and transport posted larger gains.
- IDECBA’s report said the city index accumulated a 16% rise in the first half of 2026 and a 32.6% year‑on‑year increase, measures that markets watch for national trends.
- Regional scans backed the slowdown with Bahía Blanca reporting 1.7% for June, but supermarket leaders in Rosario say sales remain weak as shoppers make more frequent, smaller and cheaper or healthier purchases.
- Analysts and policy makers are awaiting INDEC’s national June CPI on July 14 for confirmation and will watch whether sustained regulated-price increases in housing and transport blunt any recovery in real household spending.