KUALA LUMPUR (Nikkei Markets) -- Malaysia's inflation rate eased to a six-month low as consumer prices rose at a slower-than-expected pace in November on the back of costlier food, official data Friday showed.
Consumer price index - Malaysia's main gauge of inflation - rose 0.9% in November from a year earlier, according to the federal Department of Statistics. That compares with a median 1.2% gain predicted in a Nikkei Markets poll and October's 1.1% year-on-year increase. The index climbed 0.1% from the previous month.
