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Consumer prices fall for first time in over 2 years on govt measures

People buy food items in Bangkok’s Yaowarat neighbourhood in January. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul)

Thailand’s annual headline consumer price index (CPI) in October declined for the first time in more than two years, thanks to falling energy and goods prices due to government support measures, the commerce ministry said on Monday.

The headline CPI fell 0.31% in October from a year earlier, the first annual drop since August 2021. That compared with a forecast 0.0% in a…

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