Arab Finance: Egypt’s headline inflation may accelerate to around 37% in the third quarter (Q3) of 2023 amid risk of further currency devaluation and rising prices of subsidized goods, Bloomberg reported on June 10th, citing Farouk Soussa, an economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
On June 10th, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced that Egypt's annual headline inflation rate climbed to 33.7% in May, compared to 15.3% in the same month of 2022.
It is worth noting that the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) targets inflation at 7%, ±2 percentage points, on average by the fourth quarter of 2024.