Malaysia Inflation Cooled Further in November

Malaysia's inflation cooled further in November, easing more than expected as growth in prices of core products such as food and beverages decelerated. The consumer-price index rose 1.5% in November from a year earlier, the Department of Statistics said Friday. That compared with a 1.8% increase in October--the lowest since April 2021--and consensus forecasts for a 1.7% rise. Economists had largely expected inflation to soften, continuing a broad downward trend seen throughout the year. Moody's Analytics had projected that headline inflation would cool from the previous month's reading, with food...