JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's headline consumer price inflation fell to 3.0% year on year in September from 3.1% in August, data from Statistics South Africa showed on Wednesday.
On a month-on-month basis, the consumer price index was at 0.2% in September from 0.2% in the previous month.
Core inflation, which excludes prices of food, non-alcoholic beverages, fuel and energy, was flat at 3.3% year on year in September. On a month-on-month basis core inflation was also flat at 0.2%.
(Reporting by Alexander Winning; Editing by Promit Mukherjee)
Price
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Change
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5d. change
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Capi.
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| 448.1 PTS | -0.37% | -1.28% | - | ||
| 151.7 PTS | +0.30% | -0.16% | - | ||
| 1,934 PTS | +0.00% | +0.93% | - | ||
