(UPDATE) INFLATION could have slowed further in May due to lower fuel, electricity, fish and poultry prices, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said on Wednesday.

Consumer price growth likely decelerated for a fourth straight month to 5.8 to 6.6 percent, the central bank said, after it hit a 14-year high of 8.7 percent in January.

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