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Consumer Price Developments in February 2021
23 March 2021
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Summary
MAS Core Inflation rose to 0.2% on a year‐on‐year (y‐o‐y) basis in February, from ‐0.2% in January.
This was due to an increase in services costs as well as higher food inflation.
CPI‐All Items inflation picked up to 0.7% in February, from 0.2% in January.
The increase was driven by higher private transport inflation, in addition to the rise in core inflation.