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China's CPI to fall in August, but at slower rate
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-09-02 13:17 BEIJING: China's consumer price index (CPI), an important gauge of inflation, might still see a decline in August, but the rate of decrease would be smaller than July's, according to a report released Wednesday by the Bank of Communications (BOCOM), China's fifth largest lender. The CPI would edge down by around 1.2 percent in August from a year earlier, said the report. It could be the seventh consecutive month of CPI decline since the index dropped 1.6 percent in February, but the year-on-year decline rate in August would be lower than the 1.8 percent in July, Tang Jianwei, a senior analyst with the Shanghai-based BOCOM, told Xinhua Wednesday.
The National Bureau of Statistics is scheduled to publish the official CPI figure for August on September 11. |