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Short-lived spike in underlying inflation on the cards

The surge in input prices caused by supply shortages is starting to show signs of filtering through into higher output prices. Combined with upwards pressure on services inflation from a “vaccine bounce” later in the year, we now expect underlying inflation to rise but only temporarily to a peak of around 1.0% y/y.

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