JOHANNESBURG, March 22 (Reuters) – South Africa’s targeted
consumer price inflation slowed unexpectedly to 6.1 percent
year-on-year in February from 6.3 percent in January, Statistics
South Africa said on Thursday.
On a month-on-month basis, inflation was at 0.6 percent,
unchanged from January.
Economist surveyed by Reuters had expected CPI to edge up to
6.4 percent year-on-year and to 0.8 percent on a month-on-month
basis.
(Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa; Editing by Jon Herskovitz)
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