KUALA LUMPUR: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 1.6% in January 2020, the fastest since May 2018, due to higher transport costs following higher fuel prices.
The CPI rose to 122.4 from 120.5 a year ago but the 1.6% increase was slightly slower that the 1.7% forecast by economists in a Bloomberg survey.
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