SANTIAGO, March 8 (Reuters) - Chile's consumer prices
surprisingly fell 0.1% in February, government statistics agency
INE said on Wednesday, slowing sharply from the 0.8% rise
reported in the previous month and below an expected 0.25% in a
Reuters poll of economists.
The monthly figure took the Andean country's 12-month rate
of consumer price increases to 11.9%, down from 12.3% in January
but still far from the central bank's target range of 2% to 4%.
(Reporting by Fabian Andres Cambero and Gabriel Araujo; Editing
by Andrew Heavens)
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