FRENCH INFLATION CONFIRMED AT 0.2 PCT IN MAY
  French retail prices rose a confirmed 0.2
  pct in May compared with a 0.5 pct rise in April and 0.2 pct in
  May last year, the National Statistics Institute (INSEE) said.
      The rise took the year-on-year inflation rate to 3.4 pct in
  May from 3.5 pct in April, and brought cumulative inflation
  over the first five months of this year to 2.0 pct compared
  with 0.7 pct for the same period of 1986.