Consumer prices in June 2007 increased by 0.9% against last month, 5.2% over December of 2006 and 7.8% against same period last year. Consumer prices increased because the prices of all commodity groups both rose at different levels. As compared with the first half of last year, average consumer price rose by 7%, lower than the average increase of 8.6% for first half of 2005 and 7.9% for 6 beginning months of 2006.
Gold price changed unstably, on average gold price for 6 months increased by 11.9% against same period last year, of which gold price in June 2007 fell by 2% over last month but rose by 5% over December of 2006 and by 2.8% over same period last year. USD price in 6 months has trended to slightly raise since April 2007 and in almost months USD prices increased over same period last year. On average, USD price per month rose by 0.5%. USD price in June 2007 increased by 0.3% over last month, by 0.1% over last December and by 0.5% over same period last year.