Brazil's consumer price inflation eased in May to the lowest level in three months, figures from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, or IBGE, showed on Tuesday.
The consumer price index climbed 5.32 percent year-over-year in May, slower than the 5.53 percent rise in April.
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