The economy continues to chug along just fine even as it recorded the first inflation of the year in March. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.2% in March 2019 from the previous year.
The recovery away from a deflation in the previous two months was driven by the transport and the food & non-alcoholic beverages components of the CPI.
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