China's consumer price inflation eased to the lowest since October 2009 as pork prices fell for the first time in 19 months, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Tuesday.
Consumer price inflation slowed to an 11-month low of 0.5 percent in October from 1.7 percent in September. This was also below economists' forecast of 0.8 percent.
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