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TABLE-Sri Lanka August y/y inflation at 9.5 pct

Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:26pm IST

COLOMBO, Aug 30 (Reuters) - The following table shows Sri
Lanka's consumer price index for August released by the
Government Statistics Office on Thursday.
       
                               August 2012       July 2012
  Colombo CPI (new index)            165.7          166.7
  Annual average (pct change)          6.3            6.0
  Change on year (pct)                 9.5            9.8
  (Base 2006/7=100)    
  
    - Core annual inflation, which excludes fresh foods, energy,
transport, rice and coconuts, eased to 5.9 percent from its
10-month high of 6.0 percent recorded in July. 
    - August annual inflation at 9.5 percent, easing from its
42-month high of 9.8 percent hit in July, while the 12-month
moving average rose to 6.3 percent, edging up for the third time
in 11 months after hitting a 20-month low in May.

 (Reporting by Ranga Sirilal; Editing by Anand Basu)
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