Malaysia’s March CPI rises 1.4% y/y, below forecast

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s consumer price index rose 1.4% in March from a year earlier, government data showed on Wednesday.

The rise was less than the 1.6% increase forecast in a Reuters poll of economists. In February, the index rose 1.5%.

(Reporting by Danial Azhar; Editing by Martin Petty)