Lower food and fuel prices likely kept inflation on an easing path in December, economists polled by The Manila Times said.

Their average forecast of 5.7 percent is lower than the 6.0 recorded in November, when consumer price growth slowed—after accelerating since the start of 2018—from a nine-year high of 6.7 percent in September and October.

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