In February 2022, the Industrial Item Consumer price index rose 3.1 percent month over month and also 16.4 percent year over year. This was the sixth successive month-to-month boost, and the largest regular monthly gain in even more than 42 years, given that January 1980 (+3.8 percent).
In February, the Raw Products Price index rose 6.0 percent month over month and 29.8 percent year over year.
Rates for steel ores, concentrates and scrap raised 3.8 percent on a month-to-month basis. Within this group, rates for iron ores and concentrates climbed 8.6 percent. Gold ores, concentrates and mill billion (+2.9 percent), as well as silver ores, concentrates as well as mill bullion (+2.3 percent), also posted monthly rises.