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India's January retail inflation eases to 5.07 percent

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's annual retail inflation slightly eased in January to 5.07 percent from the 17-month high hit in December, as food prices ebbed, data from the Ministry of Statistics showed on Monday.

Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast January's consumer price inflation to ease to 5.14 percent from December's 5.21 percent.

(Reporting by Manoj Kumar; Editing by Richard Borsuk and Sanjeev Miglani)

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First Published: Feb 12 2018 | 6:11 PM IST

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