KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's inflation moderated to 1.7% in December 2024, lower than forecast, with slower increases in the costs of personal care, social protection and miscellaneous good and services, among other groups.
The country's consumer price index (CPI) in December showed slower expansion as compared to 1.9% in the previous month of November, but remained higher than the 1.5% increase from a year earlier in December 2023. Analysts polled by Reuters had projected a rate of inflation of 1.8%.
