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Inflation close to bottoming out

Consumer price inflation is likely to have eased in May due in large part to another drop in food inflation, and we have nudged down our full-year inflation forecast in response to the weakness in the first few months of 2017. But the more important point is that inflation is close to bottoming out, and is likely to begin rising again over the coming months as core price pressures build.

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