Fiji Sun Saturday 17 June 2017 This is an informative publication, sponsored by The Fiji Sun, Fiji Bureau of Statistics and HFC Bank. All views expressed or implied are purely of the Financial Markets Analyst at the HFC Bank, Shoran Devi.
The All Items Building Material Price Index (BMPI) for the first quarter of 2017 stood at 107.9, a marginal 0.1 percent increase from the end of December 2016. The BPMI is a composite index that measures the movement in prices of building material in Fiji. The BMPI differs from the Consumer Price Index (CPI) which measures the price movements of a basket of goods that an average family consumes.
Detailed sectional changes over the December quarter of 2016 are as follows:
Wood and Related Materials: increased by 0.3%
Higher prices were recorded for dressed treated No.1 framing grade and dressed treated No.1 dressing.
Cement and Related Materials: dropped by 0.5% Read more…
