That compares with the median forecast for a 1.6% rise compiled in a survey of six economists by The Wall Street Journal. Malaysia's February CPI +1.5% on Yr Vs Reuters Poll +1.5%.
马来西亚二月份的CPI同比增长1.5%，与路透社调查结果一致，均为1.5%。
Malaysia's consumer-price growth slowed slightly in the second month of 2025, extending a long-running streak of stable inflation.
马来西亚2025年第二个月的消费价格增长略微放缓，延续了长期稳定的通胀趋势。
The consumer price index rose 1.5% from a year earlier in February, mainly due to a deceleration in housing and utilities price growth, the Department of Statistics said Friday.
根据统计局周五的报告，2月份消费者价格指数同比上涨1.5%，主要由于住房和公共事业价格增长放缓。
That compares with the median forecast for a 1.6% rise compiled in a survey of six economists by The Wall Street Journal.
这与《华尔街日报》对六位经济学家的调查所编制的中值预测1.6%的上涨相比。
Economists had largely anticipated that inflation would stay broadly steady.
经济学家们普遍预计通胀将保持大致稳定。
Malaysia's inflation will likely remain manageable through 2025, supported by easing global commodity prices and moderate domestic demand pressures, RHB economist Chin Yee Sian said in a recent note. The country's fuel subsidy reform, set for mid-2025, will probably have limited inflationary impact if implemented gradually, she said. RHB projects inflation to rise 2.4% this year, compared with a 1.8% increase in 2024.
RHB经济学家陈亦先在最近的一份报告中表示，马来西亚的通胀在2025年可能保持可控，这得益于全球商品价格的放缓和适度的国内需求压力。她指出，如果逐步实施，预计到2025年中期的燃料补贴改革将对通胀产生有限的影响。RHB预测今年的通胀将上涨2.4%，而2024年则为1.8%的增长。
February's data showed that prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages, which have a nearly 30% weighting on the consumer price index, rose 2.5% on the year.
2月份的数据表明，食品和非酒精饮料的价格上涨了2.5%，而这类商品在消费者价格指数中所占的权重接近30%。
Core inflation, which strips out volatile prices of fresh food as well as prices of government-administered goods, increased 1.9% in February from a year earlier.
核心通胀率在2月份同比增长1.9%，剔除了新鲜食品和政府管理商品价格的波动价格。
On a monthly basis, consumer prices rose 0.4% last month, compared with January's 0.1% decrease.
在每月的基础上，上个月消费者价格上升了0.4%，而1月份则下降了0.1%。
By Ying Xian Wong
作者：黄颖贤
