A market vendor arranges assorted vegetables inside the Quinta Market in Manila, Sept. 19. Vegetable prices continued to rise in November. — PHILIPPINE STAR/EDD GUMBAN

MANILA – Philippine annual inflation was 1.7% in September, above the previous month’s 1.5% rate, the statistics agency said on Tuesday.

Economists in a Reuters poll had expected annual inflation to pick up to 2% in September. — Reuters

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