JOHANNESBURG, Feb 15 (Reuters) - South Africa's headline
consumer inflation slowed to 6.9% year on year in January from
7.2% in December, data from Statistics South Africa showed on
Wednesday.
On a month-on-month basis, consumer inflation was at -0.1%
in January compared to 0.4% in the previous month.
Core inflation, which excludes prices of food, non-alcoholic
beverages, fuel and energy, was at 4.9% year on year in January,
from 4.9% the previous month. On a month-on-month basis core
inflation was at 0.2% in January, compared to 0.2% in December.
(Reporting by Alexander Winning
Editing by Promit Mukherjee)
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