KUALA LUMPUR (July 28): Malaysia\u2019s business inflation in June accelerated to the fastest pace in four years amid higher energy costs, official data released on Tuesday showed.<\/p>\n
The producer price index, which tracks inflation at the wholesale level before it reaches consumers, rose 9.2% in June when compared to the same month in 2025, the Department of Statistics Malaysia said in a statement. The index climbed 0.6% when compared to May.<\/p>\n
While crude oil eased on a month-on-month basis, prices remained elevated on a year-on-year basis due to geopolitical uncertainties in the Middle East while global energy demand remained unabated, the department said.<\/p>\n
Global crude oil prices remained higher at US$81.90 per barrel in June 2026. Brent, the global benchmark for crude oil, averaged US$92.50 in the first six months of 2026.<\/p>\n
The jump also tracks gains in other major exporter economies, driven also by sustained demand for technology-related products. In Taiwan, factory-gate prices surged 15.1% in June on strong global demand for semiconductors, artificial intelligence-related products and electronic components.<\/p>\n
For consumers, however, inflation has eased thanks to a system of subsidies and price control on essential goods and services. Consumer prices \u2014 the preferred gauge of inflation for the government and the central bank \u2014 slowed to 1.9% year-on-year in June.<\/p>\n
The mining sector sub-index increased 29% in June, moderating from a 53% surge in May, while the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector was up by 9.1% versus the 8.9% gain in the previous month.<\/p>\n
The producer price index for the manufacturing sector rose 7.2% in June compared to May\u2019s rate of 3.5% mainly due to coke and refined petroleum products as well as computer, electronic and optical products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KUALA LUMPUR (July 28): Malaysia\u2019s business inflation in June accelerated to the fastest pace in four years amid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-563136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}