Malaysia's CPI up 3.9% in Jan(09/02/20)

<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid white"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid white; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Malaysia's Consumer Price Index (CPI) for January increased by 3.9 percent to 111.7 compared with that of 107.5 on a year-on-year basis, the Statistics Department said on Friday.</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid white"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid white; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN>&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid white"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid white; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN>The index for Food &amp; Non-Alcoholic Beverages showed high percentage change of 9.8 percent, meanwhile the index for Non- Food increased by 1.1 percent.</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid white"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid white; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN>&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid white"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid white; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN>The two main groups, Food &amp; Non-Alcoholic Beverages and Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas &amp; Other Fuels together accounted for 89.2 percent of the overall increase recorded for the current period. However, the index for Transport decreased by 2.1 per cent.</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid white"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid white; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN>&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid white"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid white; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN>Compared with the previous month, the CPI decreased by 0.1 percent. The index for Food &amp; Non-Alcoholic Beverages rose by 0.1 percent while index for Non-Food decreased by 0.2 percent, the department said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>