Inflation slows in March, with food causing biggest upward push

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Inflation slows in March, with food causing biggest upward push

Inflation growth continued to slow in March, rising by 1.9 per cent compared to 2.3 per cent in February, the National Statistics Office said on Tuesday.In March, the largest upward contribution to annual inflation was in the Food Index (+1.10 percentage points), largely due to higher prices of take-aways.The second and third largest contributions were...