KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s consumer price index (CPI) fell for the fifth month in a row in July, contracting 1.3% from a year earlier, government data showed on Tuesday.
The drop was in line with the median forecast by 11 economists surveyed by Reuters. In June, the index had fallen 1.9%.
July’s decline was driven largely by lower retail fuel prices during the month, with the transport sector index falling 10.3% on the year, the Statistics Department said in a statement.
(Reporting by Rozanna Latiff; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
