PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), is likely to have moderated last month due to a high-base effect and slower increase in the prices of several key items in the basket of goods and services that make up the index.
A median estimate of 13 economists polled by Bloomberg puts the country’s CPI growth in November at a slower pace of 2.7%, compared with 2.8% in the preceding month.
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