Malaysia's June CPI up 3.4% y/y, higher than forecast
FILE PHOTO: A woman shops in a wet market in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Olivia Harris
KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysia's consumer price index (CPI) rose 3.4 per cent from a year earlier in June, government data showed on Friday.
The rise was more than the 3.1 per cent growth forecast by economists in a Reuters poll and the 2.8 per cent growth seen in May.
June's inflation was driven mainly by food items, the Statistics Department said in a statement.
Source: Reuters
