Thai consumer price rise

BANGKOK: Thailand´s headline consumer prices, which had fallen 15 months in a row, rose slightly in April on an annual basis thanks to higher prices of food, vegetables and tobacco.

The index, published by the Commerce Ministry on Monday, nudged up 0.07 percent in April from a year earlier.

A Reuters poll forecast a 0.1 percent fall.  The core inflation rate, which strips out raw food and energy prices, increased 0.78 percent in April from a year earlier, roughly in line with the 0.71 percent seen in the poll.