Inflation drops to 8.5% in Catalonia in September

Inflation in Catalonia eased in September, with the latest figures released by Spain's National Statistics Institute on Friday morning showing the rate has dropped to 8.5%.

This represents a drop of 1.7 percentage points compared with the figures from August, when inflation reached 10.2%. August was the second-highest rate ever recorded, only behind July's rate of 10.3%. 

Month-on-month price differences in Catalonia have dropped by 0.8 percentage points.

In Spain as a whole, the September inflation rate stood at 8.9%, a point and a half below the rate recorded in August (10.5%).

The downward trend in prices is mainly due to lower prices for electricity, gas and fuels. However, the price of food is continuing to rise.