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Consumer Prices (Oct.)

The rise in CPI inflation from 0.5% in September to 0.7% in October shows that inflation is well past its crisis low point of 0.2%. But while it will rise more significantly from next April, we doubt that it will spend much time above the 2% target. That is unless a no deal Brexit pushes it up to a peak of 3.0-4.0%.

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