Consumer prices in 02/2007 had higher rates than previous months and generally this increasing tendency was not different from the trend of 2 months of 2005 & 2006. As compared with last month, the consumer price indexes rose by 2.2%. As compared with the end of 2006, consumer prices in February rose by 3.2%.
Gold prices in 02/2007 grew by 2.1% over last month and only rose by 0.9% against the end of last year, due to gold prices in January decreased; however the gold prices in this month still rose by 17.1% over February of 2006. USD prices contunued decreasing by 0.2% over last month and by 0.3% over December of 2006, but USD prices slightly increased by 0.6% against same period last year.