IBGE: milk, tomato and rice ease IPCA-15; Airline ticket, transportation by app and meal drive up costs

By Daniela Amorim Rio, 23/12/2025 - The declines in the prices of long-life milk (-5.37%), tomato (-14.53%), and rice (-2.37%) helped jointly to hold back the official inflation preview in the country by -0.08 percentage points in December. The three items topped the ranking of the largest reliefs this month. The data are from the National Consumer Prices Index 15 (IPCA-15) for December. The rate found by the IPCA-15 was 0.25%, reported the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The items in the ranking of the largest reliefs were long-life milk (-0.04 percentage points), tomato (-0.03 points), rice (-0.01 point), used car (-0.01 point), and residential electricity (-0.01 point). In the opposite direction, the items in the ranking of the largest pressures on the ...