(Changes day of release to Thursday, figures unchanged)
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s annual urban consumer inflation rate accelerated to 18.7% in November year-on-year versus October’s figure of 16.2%, data from the statistics agency CAPMAS showed on Thursday.
(This story has been refiled to change the day data was released to Thursday, figures unchanged)
(Reporting by Mahmoud Salama; Writing by Lina Najem; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)