BEIJING: China's consumer price inflation jumped in February to a near 12-year high of 8.7%, handing the central bank a dilemma over whether to raise interest rates even as the economy is coming off the boil.
Inflation in January was 7.1% and economists had expected a February figure of 8%.
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