加纳通胀率略有加速，主要受服务价格增长提速影响，这强化了市场对央行将维持利率不变预期的看法。
Ghanaian inflation accelerated slightly as service price-growth picked up pace, hardening expectations the central bank will keep interest rates on hold.
加纳政府统计师阿尔哈桑·伊德里苏周三在首都阿克拉告诉记者，9月消费者价格同比上涨5.2%，而8月为5%。彭博社调查的三位经济学家的中位预期为5.5%。9月物价环比上涨1.1%。
Consumer prices rose 5.2% at an annual rate in September compared with 5% the month before, Government Statistician Alhassan Iddrisu told reporters in Accra, the capital, on Wednesday. The median expectation of three economists surveyed by Bloomberg was for 5.5%. Prices rose 1.1% in the month.
自3月以来，加纳央行一直将利率维持在14%，理由是中东冲突带来的价格压力风险较高。此举中断了此前激进的宽松周期，此前利率曾从一年前的28%峰值大幅下调。
The Bank of Ghana has held interest rates at 14% since March, citing elevated risks to price pressures stemming from the Middle East conflict. That halted an aggressive easing cycle that brought them down from a 28% peak the year before.
他说：“过去一年通胀率几乎减半，但过去两个月的趋势是上升的。”“目前，通胀主要由服务业和本地生产商品驱动。”9月食品通胀率从8月的3%升至4%。非食品通胀率从8月的6.8%放缓至6.2%。服务价格通胀率为8.3%，而8月为8.6%，但环比来看，从上月的0.4%翻倍至0.8%。
“Inflation has almost halved over the year, but the direction over the last two months is upward,” he said. “Today, inflation is mainly driven by services and by home-grown items.”Food inflation picked up to 4% in September from 3% in the prior month. Non-food inflation slowed to 6.2% compared with 6.8% in August. Service price inflation was 8.3% compared with 8.6% in August., but on a monthly basis it doubled to 0.8% from 0.4% the month before.