April’s sharp fall in consumer price inflation makes the rate hike we’ve been arguing would occur before the end of the year seem less likely. But we suspect the drop in inflation will be reversed before long. Meanwhile, the revamped industrial output figures are, as expected, more upbeat than the old series over recent years, but they show a sharp slowdown since mid-2016.
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