Consumer price inflation in India likely fell to 5.3% in December on moderating food price rises, a Reuters poll of economists showed, bolstering expectations for an interest rate cut by the central bank next month amid slowing economic growth.

Inflation has been fuelled largely by an expansion of money supply. Egypt’s supply of M2 money – a measure that includes cash, checking deposits and other deposits readily con

Egyptian inflation is expected to have eased to 24.2% in December as food prices continued to cool, according to a poll released on Wednesday. The median forecast of 13 analysts polled by Reuters was for annual urban consumer inflation to have edged down to 24.