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Malaysia’s Jan CPI rises 3.7% on-year, in line with forecast

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Reuters
Published: Feb 24, 2023, 04:06 GMT+00:00

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's consumer price index (CPI) in January rose 3.7% from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday.

A woman shops in a wet market in Kuala Lumpur

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s consumer price index (CPI) in January rose 3.7% from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday.

The rise was in line with the forecast made by 19 economists in a Reuters poll. In December, the index had risen 3.8%.

(Reporting by Mei Mei Chu; Editing by Kanupriya Kapoor)

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