Hong Kong's consumer price inflation increased at the end of the year amid rising vegetable and energy prices, data released by the Census and Statistics Department showed on Friday.
The consumer price index, or CPI, climbed 2.0 percent year-over-year in December, slower than the 1.8 percent stable rate of rise in November. Economists had forecast inflation to climb slightly to 1.9 percent.
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