Lankan inflation rises in Dec
Thursday, 1 January 2015
COLOMBO, Dec 31 (Reuters): Sri Lanka's annual inflation rate picked up to 2.1 per cent year-on-year in December from its more than five-year low of 1.5 per cent in the previous month, the state-run Department of Census and Statistics said on Wednesday.
The annual average inflation for the latest 12 months fell to a 59-month low of 3.3 per cent in December from 3.5 per cent a month earlier.
It hit a record high of 8.8 per cent in May 2013.