CAIRO: Egypt’s urban consumer inflation slowed to 7.1 percent on an annual basis last month from 8.2 percent in September, Egypt’s state statistics agency said on Thursday.
The urban consumer price index for October was 119.2 versus 111.3 a year earlier, the agency CAPMAS said.
Meanwhile, core consumer price inflation declined to an annual 7.6 percent in October from 7.95 percent in September, the central bank said.