While the drop in the headline inflation rate to 1.3% in May, from 1.6%, can be partly explained by lower energy price inflation, the decline in certain core inflation measures are weaker than most economists expected and further evidence that spare capacity and muted wage cost pressures are still restraining underlying inflation.
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