Consumer price inflation in Colombo has risen to 5.5% in January 2017. From a year ago and inflation calculated for December 2016 was 4.5% .YoY inflation of Food Group has increased from 4.1% in December 2016 to 4.5% in January 2017 and that of Non-food Group has increased from 4.5% to 6.0% during this period. For the month of January 2017, on year to year basis, contribution to inflation by food commodities was 1.31%.
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