Belarus Inflation Slows for Fourth Month, Economy Minister Says
February 08, 2012, 6:43 AM ESTBy Aliaksandr Kudrytski
Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Belarusian consumer prices advanced 1.9 percent from the previous month in January as inflation decelerated for a fourth month, Deputy Economy Minister Aleksandr Yaroshenko said.
“We expect inflation to continue its slowing trend,” Yaroshenko told a news conference today in the capital, Minsk. He reiterated an earlier forecast for full-year price growth of no more than 22 percent.
Prices rose 109.7 percent from a year earlier in January. Inflation reached 13.6 percent from the previous month in September.
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