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Last week the consumption of agricultural prices to rise mainly to production materials prices continue to fall
According to the monitoring of the Ministry of Commerce, July 30-August 5 (Last week, the same below), the consumption of agricultural prices to rise, production prices continue to fall.
Since late July, the country and more affected by heavy rainfall, the consumption of agricultural prices in a slight rebound. Last week, the 18 kinds of vegetables wholesale prices in 36 large and medium-sized cities than in the previous week rose 5.7 percent, for three weeks to rebound, has risen 12.2 percent, including lettuce, cabbage and cucumber prices were up 30.3 percent over the previous week, 18.8% and 17.9 %; retail price of eggs rose 0.6 percent over the previous week, and still down year on year by 5.4%. Among them, Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai prices over the previous week rose 1%, 1% and 0.9%; retail price of grain and oil steady rise, including peanut oil, rapeseed oil, soybean oil prices were up 0.5 percent over the previous week, 0.4%, 0.2%; the price of rice rose 0.2 percent over the previous week, the price of flour and the previous week; slight fluctuations of wholesale prices of meat, pork prices fell 0.4 percent from the previous week, Xiamen, Nanjing and Beijing, prices fell 1.7%, 0.4% and 0.3%; beef, lamb, and whole chicken prices rose 0.7%, 0.4% and 0.3% respectively; eight kinds of aquatic products wholesale prices continue to fall, down 0.3 percent from the previous week for six weeks the fall amounted to 2.7%, including grass carp, cutlass and silver carp prices fell 1.4%, 0.5% and 0.4% respectively over the previous week.
Last week in the major means of production, rubber, energy, minerals, steel, nonferrous metals, agricultural supplies, building materials prices drop, light industry raw materials prices were flat, prices of chemical products rose slightly. Rubber prices fell 1.5 percent, the downstream tire industry demand is weak, driving rubber prices continued to drop, the cumulative decrease of 13.3% compared to early May, butadiene rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, nitrile rubber prices over the previous week were down 2.8 percent, 2.2 % and 1.7%. Energy prices fell 1.1 percent, including coal, coke prices fell by 2.6% and 2% respectively over the previous week. Commodity prices fell 0.9 percent, including tungsten ore, antimony ore, iron ore prices were down 4%, 1% and 0.9%. Steel prices fell 0.1%, of which 500 * 200mmH steel, 8 # channel steel price over the previous week were down 1.7% and 1.5%. Non-ferrous metal prices fell 0.1%, nickel 1 # 1 # copper, A00 aluminum prices were down 1.5%, 0.4% and 0.3%, 1 # zinc # 1 lead prices rose by 0.7% and 0.2% respectively. Agricultural prices fell 0.1%, which superphosphate, ammonium bicarbonate, urea prices were down 0.9%, 0.8% and 0.4%. Building materials prices fell 0.1 percent, cement prices fell 0.3 percent. Chemical products prices rose 0.5%, including sulfuric acid, ammonia, soda ash price rose 0.9%, 0.5% and 0.5% respectively.
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2012-08-08