Aug 23 2015
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Aug 23 (
Reuters
) – Bahrain’s statistics office released the following July consumer price data on Sunday.
NOTE. Housing and utility costs, which account for 24 percent of consumer expenses, rose 2.3 percent from a year earlier but were flat from the previous month.
Prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages, which account for 16 percent of the basket, fell 0.7 percent year-on-year and dropped 2.3 percent month-on-month.
(Reporting by Andrew Torchia; Editing by Susan Fenton)
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