Johannesburg - South Africa's producer price inflation slowed to 5.8 percent year-on-year in December from 6.5 percent in November, the statistics office said on Thursday.
On a month-on-month basis, prices at the factory gate were down by 0.2 percent in December after being flat in November.
Economists polled by Reuters expected PPI to come in at 6 percent year-on-year while prices were forecast to dip 0.1 percent month-on-month. - Reuters