Floods add risks to inflation outlook

Consumer price inflation is likely to have fallen in June on the back of a further decline in food price inflation. Looking ahead, while we expect inflation in the second half of 2016 to be broadly the same as in the first two quarters, ongoing flooding across large parts of China has increased upside risks to our forecast.

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