In double precision thread consumers will find in the run-up to Easter. On the one hand, fuel prices that show absolutely no inclination to deescalate, despite the fact that Brent prices are at their lowest in the last month, while on the other hand, forecasts for Easter table they don’t seem optimistic.
The latest indications for the formation of lamb prices show that they will move to last year’s levels or even a little higher with a higher price in thefarm butchers 16 euros per kilo for goat, while in Varvakeio one will be able to find lamb for just under 10 euros.
As for the rest of the goods, the Easter chocolate egg will be out of reach this year due to the leap made by price for cocoa in international financial markets.
Regarding the price of gasoline, everything shows that it will move to much higher levels compared to last year. At the moment the price of unleaded is moving at 9-month highs, despite the fact that prices in the international financial markets for oil are moving downwards and are well below the highs of April.
The price of unleaded petrol at medium levels, based on data from the Ministry of Development’s Price Observatory, has climbed to 1.984 euros per liter and areas above 2 euros have now reached 19 compared to 14 last week.
Fears for prices above 2 euros in Attica as well
In fact, analysts fear that in view of the increased demand, due to the Easter holiday, the price may show a new rise or, in the best case, established at these levels which are particularly high anyway.
Even in Attica and Thessaloniki, which are the cheapest areas, the average prices are close to the level of 2 euros, and in particular they are formed in 1.957 euros per liter and 1.951 euros respectively.
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But even in these there are gas stations where the price of unleaded is set at above the limit of 2 euros.
What seems to be different is the price for the diesel engine, which does not seem to follow the path of the gasoline. So compared to the end of last month, the price of diesel has increased by 0.5 cents per liter, while for the same period the price of gasoline has increased by 4.1 cents per liter.
Also compared to last week, there is a marginal drop for diesel and from 1.715 euros which was its price, today it is to 1,712 euros per liter.
It is worth noting that similar prices in gasoline will be found in the middle of last August with the average price of gasoline running towards 2 euros and the price of the diesel engine at 1,750 euros. Then, from the beginning of September, prices followed a downward trend.
The remarkable thing about the whole affair is that the price of Brent in the international markets it is moving downwards, and from the 92 dollars per barrel recorded on April 12, the trend is now – with small exceptions – downward and moving below the 90 dollars per barrel level. Yesterday, for example, it was formed a little below 88 dollars, after today’s upward reaction, while yesterday intra-session it had retreated below 86 dollars.
The representatives of the fuel market state that this is sometimes common, i.e. the prices at the pump do not keep pace with the course of international oil prices and this is because the prices that Greece buys, but also in general the countries of the Mediterranean sometimes differ from those of Brentas well as the prices vary by supplier.
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