KUALA LUMPUR: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 3.5% to 109.9 in March 2014 against 106.2 recorded in the same month last year, the Statistics Department said. Cumulatively, the CPI was up 3.4% in the first three months of the year to 109.7 compared with 106.1 registered in the same period a year ago.
In a starement, it said the 3.5% rise in the CPI was brought about by the increased indices of all the main groups except those of communication and miscellaneous goods and services, which decreased by 0.5%, respectively.