The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday.

The dollar traded mixed against foreign currencies Wednesday as investors weighed rising oil prices with the possibility that inflation is coming under control.

Germany's latest inflation figures suggest that the worst of the recent sharp increase in prices might be over for both the country and the eurozone, analysts said Wednesday.

Consumers are just as good as professional economists at predicting the rate of inflation, a new survey finds.

Driven by record commodity prices and a surge in government spending, the Turkish inflation rate jumped to 12.1 percent in July from a 37-year low of 6.9 percent a year earlier.

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan inflation will slow in the second half of 2008 after the government eliminated a tax on financial transactions and shortages of basic foods were alleviated, central bank director Armando Leon said.

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Inflation in Germany, Europe's largest economy, eased from a 12 year-high in August after oil prices retreated from a record. Prices rose 3.3 percent from a year earlier using a harmonized European Union method, the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden said today.

European Central Bank policymakers signalled fresh alarm over the outlook for eurozone inflation on Wednesday even as German data indicated that headline inflation rates had fallen from record highs.

A new report has found that the wellbeing of women is greatly affected by rising inflation.

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Inflation in Germany, Europe's largest economy, probably slowed more than economists expected after oil prices retreated from a record, data from six states shows.