India, Jan. 31 -- French consumer inflation accelerated to a five-month high in January largely on energy and manufactured product prices but harmonized inflation remained stable below the European Central Bank's 2 percent target, provisional data from the statistical office INSEE showed Friday.
Consumer prices registered an annual increase of 1.4 percent in January, following December's 1.3 percent rise.
The 1.4 percent was the highest since last August, when prices grew 1.8 percent. Nonetheless, inflation stayed slightly below economists' forecast of 1.5 percent.
The rebound in prices of manufactured product and a further acceleration in those of energy were partly offset by the slowdown in prices of service and tobacco, the statistica...