(Adding details from the PSA, analyst comments)

Headline inflation held steady at a year-on-year rate of 4.9 percent in August, unchanged from July but more than double the pace of 2.1 percent recorded in the same period last year, the latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed on Friday.

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