April's Consumer Price Index rises 4.7pct y-o-y, fastest since 2017
Malaysia's consumer price index (CPI) in April rose 4.7 percent from a year earlier, its fastest growth in more than four years, government data showed on Friday.
April's rise was just below the 4.9 percent annual expansion forecast by economists in a Reuters poll and was the fastest since March 2017, when the index grew 5.1 percent. In March, the index rose 1.7 percent.
Bank Negara Malaysia has said...
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