Switzerland gets deflation too

By Edward Harrison On Apr 3, 2009

First Spain, now Switzerland:

Consumer prices in March were down 0.4% from a year ago, the Federal Statistics Office said, a 50-year low.

The country has been close to deflation all year, with inflation having fallen from a peak of 3.1% in July 2008. The rate was 0.2% in February.

The Swiss National Bank predicts that inflation will average -0.5% this year and remain close to zero throughout 2010 and 2011.

The deflation was blamed on energy, rent and transport costs all falling as a result of lower oil prices.

The year-on-year price fall for March was the biggest since December 1959, when consumer prices fell 0.6%.

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Switzerland experiences deflation – BBC News

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Edward Harrison is a senior Editor at Bloomberg. He is also the founder of Credit Writedowns newsletter, a former career diplomat, investment banker and technology executive with over twenty five years of business experience. He speaks six languages and reads another five, skills he uses to provide a more global perspective. Edward holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.

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