24 September 2003 00:02
Russian inflation expected to be 8.4%-8.6% in Jan-Sept (Part 2)
MOSCOW. Sept 24 (Interfax) - Russian inflation will be 8.4%-8.6% for the period January-September 2003, the Russian
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade forecast in its latest economic report.
Consumer prices rose 10.3% in the first nine months of last year. In the first eight months of this year, inflation
was 8.3%, compared with 9.9% a year previously. Prices grew 15.1% in 2002 as a whole and are targeted to grow 12% this
year as a whole, the ministry forecasts. [RU ASIA EUROPE EEU EMRG ECI MCE RET] pr <>
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