Thai November headline CPI drops 0.41% y/y, in line with forecast

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Thai November headline CPI drops 0.41% y/y, in line with forecast

 

FILE PHOTO: A woman shops coconut products at a supermarket in Bangkok, Thailand, July 6, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's headline consumer price index (CPI) in November dropped 0.41% from a year earlier, the smallest fall in nine months, the commerce ministry said on Friday.

 

That compared with the forecast for a 0.42% decline in a Reuters poll and followed October's 0.50% drop.

 

The core CPI index rose 0.18% from a year earlier, compared with a forecast of a 0.20% increase, and against October's 0.19% rise.

 

(Reporting by Kitiphong Thaichareon; Writing by Orathai Sriring; Editing by Ed Davies)

 

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