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Inflation unlikely to rise any further this year

While the prospect of rising inflation is a key global concern, in China disinflationary pressures have been building and we are revising down our forecast for consumer price inflation over the second half of this year. China isn’t bucking the global trend entirely – core inflation will probably climb further, albeit not particularly rapidly. But pork price inflation is plummeting and that will cap the headline rate.

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