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Deflation Watch: Lower oil prices won’t reverse inflation’s return

December’s consumer prices figures should confirm that the UK’s brief period of deflation is over, by showing the second consecutive month of positive CPI inflation. What’s more, the recent further fall in oil prices is unlikely to cause a return to deflation, but will slow inflation’s ascent.

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