THE alarming fall of the South African rand against major currencies - over the past few months - is likely to hit Zimbabwe's ailing economy hard.Although Harare continues to resist local industry's i...
By Staff reporter | Published: 15 June 2018
ZIMBABWE's exports increased by 46 percent to $329,6 million in the first four months of the year compared to $225,6 million during the comparable period last year, official trade figures show.The imp...
By Staff reporter | Published: 15 May 2018
The International Monetary Fund has reviewed Zimbabwe's economic growth rate for this year and sees growth picking up next year as the country moves away from the difficult period it has been going th...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 April 2018
Zimbabwe's annual rate of inflation gained 0,6 percentage points in December 2017 to 3,52 percent in January 2018, latest official data shows, partly driven by the 2018 back to school spending.The Zim...
By Staff reporter | Published: 20 March 2018
THE year-on-year inflation rate for the month of February stood at 2,98%, after shedding 0,54 percentage points on the January figure, the country's statistical agency has said.In January, annual infl...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 March 2018
Zimbabwe’s inflation rate for the month of February shed 0.54 percent to settle at 2.98 percent compared to the January inflation rate of 3.52 percent, official statistics show.The Zimbabwe National...
By Staff reporter | Published: 15 March 2018
ZIMBABWE's year-on-year inflation gained 0.06 percentage points last month to 3.52 percent from the December 2017 rate of 3.46 percent, official statistics show.The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 February 2018
ZIMBABWE'S national statistics agency this week moved to defend official inflation data following criticism that its figures seemed to understate resurgent price increases largely driven by an acute f...
By Staff reporter | Published: 18 January 2018
ZIMBABWE'S year-on year inflation rate closed 2017 at 3.46 percent gaining 0.49 percentage points on the November rate of 2.97 percent, official figures show.This means that prices as measured by the ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 17 January 2018
Zimbabwe's annual inflation gained 0.64 percent in September to 0.78 percent from 0.14 percent is projected to close the year 2018 at levels between 10 and 99 percent, the Parliament Budget Office (PB...
By Staff reporter | Published: 18 October 2017
The country's annual inflation for September stood at 0.78 percent, gaining 0.64 percent on the August 2017 rate of 0.14 percent, the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (ZimStats) has announced toda...
By Staff reporter | Published: 16 October 2017
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor, John Mangudya, says year-on-year inflation will continue on an upward trajectory, but end the year at three percent.Price increases have intensified over the past fe...
By Staff reporter | Published: 28 September 2017
Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation remained unchanged in August after showing an upward trajectory for six consecutive months between November 2016 and May 2017.Zimbabwe recorded price inflation of ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 18 September 2017
THE trade deficit between Zimbabwe and South Africa widened by 15% to $131 million in the first seven months of the year, latest trade data from the Statistics Agency shows.Data gathered from the Zimb...
By Staff reporter | Published: 30 August 2017
ECONOMIC analysts have warned that Zimbabwe's year-on-year inflation, which slowed down to 0,14 for the month of July from 0,31 percent in June, would still trend upwards by year-end due to worsening ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 24 August 2017
THE country's year-on-year inflation shed 0.17 percentage points to 0.14 percent in July, figures from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) show.Month-on-month inflation also fell from -0...
By Staff reporter | Published: 17 August 2017
Zimbabwe's inflation is forecast to rise to around two to three percent at the end of this year, before accelerating sharply in 2018 due to election spending.The annual inflation rate, which had been ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 August 2017
THE cost of living increased by 0.2 percent to $576.84 last month from $575.71 in June largely due to suspension of sales promotions by the retailers, the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe has said.Followi...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 August 2017
A 200% increase in money supply between December 2015 and May 2017 is unsustainable and could stoke inflationary pressures in the economy, the IMF has warned.IMF mission chief for Zimbabwe Gene Leon ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 21 July 2017
Zimbabwe's budget deficit rose to $1.4 billion, or 10 percent of national output, in 2016, worse than previously revised estimates, the country's finance minister said.The shortfall arose from unbudge...
By Reuters | Published: 20 July 2017
The Zimbabwean economy is
expected to register significant growth of 3.7% this year, underpinned
by strong performance in agriculture of 21.3%, mining 5.1% and
electricity and water 2.5%, Finance a...
By Staff reporter | Published: 20 July 2017
Zimbabwe has registered a slight growth in export earnings after earning $2,58 billion up from $2,57 billion as of June 16 this year, compared to the same period last year.Finance minister Patrick Chi...
By Staff reporter | Published: 20 July 2017
ZIMBABWE's cost of living for a family of six continued on a downward trend last month, dropping to $575.71 from $577.77 in May on the back of a decrease in the food basket, figures from the Consumer ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 July 2017
Zimbabwe's inflation rate slowed to 0.31 percent year-on-year in June from 0.75 percent in May, data from the national statistics agency showed on Monday.The June inflation rate took a huge retreat, s...
By Staff reporter | Published: 17 July 2017
Deflationary pressures in Zimbabwe continue to persist with the country's annual inflation shedding 1,45 percentage points to -2,65 percent in April form -1,20 percent recorded in March.Latest figures...
By Staff reporter | Published: 21 June 2015
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