Leading Economic Indicators - February 2007

The Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) for February 2007 is a monthly publication of the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics that highlights trends in consumer price indices and inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, international trade, agriculture, energy, manufacturing, building and construction, tourism and transport. Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 1.3 per cent from 220.7 points in January 2007 to 223.6 points in February 2007. Month-on-month overall inflation rate decelerated from 9.7 per cent in January 2007 to 6.8 per cent in February 2007. The Shilling depreciated against the US Dollar, Sterling Pound and Euro to trade at KSh 70.537, KSh 138.380 and KSh 91.434 in January 2007, respectively compared to a trading of KSh 69.397 to the Dollar, KSh 136.316 to the Pound and KSh 91.387 to the Euro. It exchanged at KSh 58.091, KSh 9.677 to the Japanese Yen and the South Africa Rand respectively. 1 In general, interest rates rose marginally in January 2007 compared to December 2006.