KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s consumer price index (CPI) for April fell at a sharper rate of 2.9% from a year compared with a Bloomberg survey of a -1.6% decline due to transport and housing, gas and other fuels during the Movement Control Order (MCO).
Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said on Wednesday the CPI’s 2.9% decline in April 2020 to 117.6 as against 121.1 in the same month of the preceding year.
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