Thai August headline CPI rises 0.35% y/y, just below forecast
FILE PHOTO: A mother and her daughter shop for bananas at a market in Bangkok, Thailand, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's headline consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.35% in August from a year earlier, after the previous month's annual increase of 0.83%, the commerce ministry said on Thursday.
The figure was compared with a forecast rise of 0.40% in a Reuters poll, and was below the central bank's target range of 1% to 3%.
The core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, was up 0.62% in August from a year earlier.
(Reporting by Orathai Sriring, Kitiphong Thaichareon and Thanadech Staporncharnchai; Editing by John Mair)
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