📈 CCPI Inflation Rises for Second Straight Month in October

• Headline inflation (Y-o-Y Colombo Consumer Price Index - CCPI) accelerated to 2.1% in October 2025, continuing the upward trend from 1.5% in September and 1.2% in August. • This acceleration aligns with the Central Bank's projections for a gradual rise towards the annual 5% inflation target. • Key Year-on-Year (Y-o-Y) Breakdown: • Food inflation accelerated to 3.5% (up from 2.9% in Sep). • Non-Food inflation increased sharply to 1.4% (up from 0.7% in Sep). • Core inflation, reflecting underlying trends, edged up to 2.2% in October from 2.0% in September. • The Month-on-Month change in CCPI was a marginal increase of 0.07%, driven by the Non-Food category (+0.10%), while Food recorded a minor decrease (-0.03%).