The country’s headline inflation could have slowed to 1.8 percent or accelerated to 2.6 percent last month on lower rice, oil and energy prices and a stronger peso, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said on Wednesday.

In a statement, the central bank said the projection provided by its Department of Economic Research compared with August’s 2.4 percent, and was much lower than the 0.9 percent in September 2019.

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