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SEOUL, May 9, 2008 (Asia In Focus via COMTEX) -- South Korea's producer prices rose at the fastest clip in more than nine years in April on soaring oil and raw material costs, the central bank said Friday, adding to worries over already-rising inflation. The producer price index, one of the barometers of future consumer inflation, grew 9.7 per cent in April from a year earlier, picking up from an 8 per cent on-year gain in March, according to the Bank of Korea (BOK). * The figure was the fastest annual increase since November 1998 when producer prices climbed 11 per cent. * Prices of industrial products advanced 13.6 per cent on-year in April, the fastest rise since October 1998 when the prices shot up 13.8 per cent, the central bank said. |
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